A Test of National Sobriety.
Teetotalers willbe glad to receive from tlie " Lancet" the suggestion of an infallible test of national temperance. Our contemporary deduce^ from theßegistrar-GeneraVa. annual report the conclusion that the surest way of judging whether temperance: is increasing or diminishing'fs by comparing the mortality from liver complaint one year with another. Inordinate consumption of alcohol -undoubtedly produces that disease* lin most caseY the 'people -who dan dririk I siity ! glare's of punoh a* day 'ap-1, pearihgany- the worse i being exceptidns' to the rule* 1 r 'StatiStice'are x said^to shbw^that liver- bomplain"t' ; is- Wpeoially jpteytAmf among publicans others l whbse;! :^d"6a-| tions bring them constantly into "cont&ct; with alcoholic temptation, and that by ite'elif aflforde ' some 1 confirmation Strob'ger support still is obtained {6n /cotti-i parinj? the annual 'rSturris«df iaortality^binel liver diseaeeH. Thia reached its maximum^ iWISIBi then 1 th^numtfer Uj iuoh^eat^s 1 pereach million of the ? 6opul4tiSd>^6utifed' td 466.^ ThAt year^it Wiirbe^r'eiiieiiiberld^ ended J;h6iperi# when bur; p|pßpe;r|ty^had, advanded^y a^'^ftplMdJboundfli'.' with' an
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 134, 26 December 1885, Page 6
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189A Test of National Sobriety. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 134, 26 December 1885, Page 6
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