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tinned in operation ? The follomng table of ten snch cities 

 that are approximjatelj of the same population as the above will 

 afford material for the necessary comparison : 



Number of arrests for drunkenness. 



C ties. 



Stenkjaer 



Tvedestrand 



Ekersund 



Ilolmestrand ... 

 Lillehammer .... 



Konsvinger 



Kristiansund ... 



Stathelle 



Ilonefos 



Ilorten 



Total 



1897. 



58 



41 

 130 

 108 

 140 



59 

 909 



10 



225 



319 



1,999 



These cities where samlags have continued to operate thus 

 show an increase in the number of cases of drunkenness since 

 1895, approximately the same as the increase in the preceding 

 cities where samlags have been discontinued. 



Before inquiring into the causes of this increase, especially 

 of this paradoxical increase in the cities that have adopted pro- 

 hibition, let us also consider whether arrests have taken the 

 same direction in the cities where samlags were discontinued 

 from the first of January, 1897. 



Number of arrests for drunkenness. 



Cities. 



Popula- 

 tion. 



1892. 



1893. 



1894. 



1895. 



1896. 



1897. 



Stavanger 

 Sogndal . 

 Farsund . 

 Lillesund 

 Levanger 

 Total .. 



885 







2 



50 



41 



978 



