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Alcohol Consumption in the United States

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 33.

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Alcohol Consumption in the United States

According to a bulletin of the Census Bureau, the total consumption of alcoholic liquors—wine, malt, and spirits—in the United States during 1900, the census year, was 1,325,358,094 gallons, or 17.3 gallons for every man, woman, and child. In 1863 there were 16,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits consumed in the country; in 1900, there were 109,000,000 gallons consumed.