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apt to be sick, and when it is attacked by disease, it is less 

 able to fight the disease successfully and as a result a drinker 



Expected Drinkers Abstainers 

 Deaths Ratio to Ratio to 



100# Expected Expected 



Deaths Deaths 



79 % 557* 



FIG. 217. Chart showing effect of alcohol on death rate. 

 (Based on the records of three British life insurance companies.) 



has less chance of recovering from a disease than an ab- 

 stainer. Drinkers are the first to succumb to such diseases 

 as pneumonia, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis. 



