BAD LIQUOR KILLS 770
NEW YORK’S RECORD FOR 1927 ' WORSE THAN “WET” YEARS Hy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright NEW .YORK, Wed. The “New York World” says that statistics which the Department of Health has just published disclose that 770 persons were killed by bad liquor in 1927 in the city of New York. This is the greatest number in any year since the Volstead Act became law, and is greater than in any of the ten preceding “wet” years. The death rate from alcoholism in 1927 was 13 per 100,000 of the population, or slightly more than the rate for measles in the peak years.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 1
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