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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 13.

Alcohol Consumption and Tuberculosis

The relation of the use of alcohol to disease is shown by the following statistical item, taken from the Dominion Presbyterian: “A French writer publishes facts showing that, in France, the provinces where most alcohol is drunk, have the largest number of deaths from tuberculosis. ‘Thus, a consumption of 12.5 litres of alcohol per person corresponds with a mortality of 3.3 per 1,000 inhabitants; when the consumption of alcohol becomes 35.4 litres per person, the death-rate from tuberculosis rises to 10.3 per 1,000 inhabitants.’”