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EXHIBIT No. 23. „ , „ Not known to Separate Persons have been Year - £ har f d wlth previously Drunkenness. onvicte /. 1901 .. .'. 8,032 4,456 1902 .. .. .. .. 8.244 5,202 1903 .. .. .. 8,815 4,944 1904 .. .. .. .. 9,615 5,268 1905 .. '.. .. 8,707 5,141 1906 '.. •-.. 9,210 5,144 1907 ■-.. .. 10,203 5,809 1908 .. .. .. 10,343 5,840 1909 .. .-.■■ .. 10,657 6,042 1910 .. .. .. ;V .. 11,718 7,056 1911 .. .. .. .. .. 11,722 say 7,000 Separate persons in eleven years .. .. 61,902

EXHIBIT No. 24. What Liquor costs in Crime, etc. In the schedule given below the figures in the first column are taken from the latest official returns available. The proportion of the expenditure which is in each case debited to liquor is stated in the second column. The proportion will be found in each case to be less than the estimate of some of the very highest authorities in the various departments concerned. In the case of charitable aid, several local estimates put the proportion due to liquor as high as 80 per cent., and old-age pensions, which are practically charitable aid, would be treated by some authorities in the same way. To be on the safe side, however, we have reduced the proportion by 5 per cent, in the one case and by 30 per cent. in the other. When it is remembered that in these cases the destitution which is due to the intemperance or extravagance not merely of recipients but of those who would have otherwise maintained them is included, the proportions will doubtless be conceded by any competent critic to be well within the mark : —

Due to Liquor. Not due to Liquor. Total Expenditure, 1910-11. Per Cent. . of Total. Amount. Amount. Prisons Police Criminal prosecutions Charitable aid* Old-age pensions . . Hospitals* Mental hospitals* .. Industrial schools . . £ 44,392 177,405 13,021 94,240 366,033 171,101 100,877 33,379 75 75 75 75 50 60 30 75 £ 33,294 133,054 9,766 70,680 183,017 102,660 30,263 25.034 £ 11,098 44,351 3,255 23,560 183,016 68,441 70,614 8,345 Totals 1,000,448 587,768 412,680 * The returns in these three cases for 1910-11 not 1 seen used, though it is clear from what has already appi iiderable increase. laving been fully iared that both hi published, those of the pre ispitals and charitable aid - dorrs year have pill show a con-