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BEER STATISTICS AND MALT CONSUMPTION. 



The following figures give the proportionate consumption 

 of malt per head of the population in the United Kingdom, 

 in bushels : 



1840 

 1841 



1842 

 1843 

 1844 

 1845 

 1846 

 1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 



Consumption of Beer. According to a statement pub. 

 lished by M. Gustave Noback, during the Vienna Exhibition 

 of 1873, the following is the proportional consumption of 

 beer per head of the population in the leading countries. The 

 first and second columns represent millions, as we have 

 omitted the figures for hundreds. The litre, it may be stated, 

 is equivalent to about If pint. 



