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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 25.

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Wages, Drunkenness, and Crime

Professor Lombroso, an eminent Italian expert in criminology, says that as wages increase drunkenness and crime increase. Lancashire, England, is cited as an instance. When the wages of miners were raised from eight to eleven shillings a week, the mortality due to drunkenness arose from 494 to 1,304, and the crimes from 1,335 to 3,878.