ENGLAND'S DRINK BILL.
THE TIMES ON MODERATE DRINKING. Great Britain's drink bill last year amounted to £161,553,330, a decrease on the previous year's figures of £1,243,899. The expenditure per head of the population was £3 10s 9d. The Times, in a leading article, points out the remarkable increase in the drinking of whisky with meals as a result of the advocacy of this form of drinking by the medical profession. "It is impossible to dogmetise on the drink question," says the Times. "The present race of Englishmen are the descendants of many generations of moderate drinkers; Englishmen are therefore what moderate drinking has made them. The world's teetotal races always have fared bad'y whenever they have come into collision with moderate drinkers."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 558, 12 April 1913, Page 2
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122ENGLAND'S DRINK BILL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 558, 12 April 1913, Page 2
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