MORTALITY FROM ALCOHOL by Benjamin Ward Richardson

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1892

MORTALITY FROM ALCOHOL.

By Benjamin Ward Richardson

As regards longevity, it has been my duty to make special inquiry into the part which intemperance plays in the causation of premature mortality, and the lowest estimate which I could frame was that at least forty thousand persons died every year in the United Kingdom from personal intemperance, and probably double that number from poverty, accident, violence, or disease consequent on the intemperance of persons other than the slain. The estimate has been laid before several learned societies, and, though it has been freely discussed, has never been seriously questioned, while it has been pronounced “moderate” and “under the truth” by well-known authorities on public health. It is not improbable that there are half a million of habitual drunkards in the United Kingdom.—Dr. B. F. Richardson.