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between 40 and 50 years of age were caused, in part at least, by 

 alcohol, and this at what should be the most active period in a 

 man's life, the time when he is most needed by his family and 

 community. Taking all ages between 20 and 80, he found that 

 alcohol was one cause of death in one man in every ten who died. 

 Another study was made by a certain doctor in Sweden, from 

 records of 1082 deaths occurring in his own practice and the local 

 hospital. No case was counted as alcoholic of which there was the 

 slightest doubt. Of deaths of adult men, 18 in every 100 were 

 due, directly or indirectly, to alcoholism. In middle life, between 

 the ages of 40 and 50, 29 ; and between 50 and 60 years of age, 25.6 

 out of every 100 deaths had alcohol as one cause, thus agreeing 



with other statistics we have been quoting. — Fromihe Metropolitan, 

 Vol. XXV, Number 11. 



The Relation of Alcohol to Crime. — A recent study of more 

 than 2500 habitual users of alcohol showed that over 66 per cent had 

 committed crime. Usually the crimes had been done in saloons 

 or as a result of quarrels after drinking. Of another lot of 23,581 

 criminals questioned, 20,070 said that alcohol had led them to 

 commit crime. 



The Relation of Alcohol to Pauperism. — We have already 

 spoken of the Jukes family. These and many other families of a 

 similar sort are more or less directly a burden upon the state. 

 Alcohol is in part at least responsible for the condition of such 

 families. Alcohol weakens the efficiency and moral courage, and 

 thus leads to begging, pauperism, petty stealing or worse, and ul- 



