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Liquor Consumption and Social Evils in Belgium

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 29, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 50.

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Liquor Consumption and Social Evils in Belgium

By Censor

BELGIUM annually spends 450,000,000 francs for spirituous liquors. Throughout the kingdom there is a beer or liquor saloon to every 44 inhabitants. The amount consumed per annum is, for every person, women and children included, 12 quarts of whisky and 240 quarts of beer. The number of suicides has recently increased 80 per cent.; of insane, 104; of criminals, 141.—Censor.