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For example : a well-known man is reported to 

 have said in the course of a speech enumerating the 

 various evils resulting from drink that io7o o^ the 

 children of drunkards are tuberculous, but he made 

 no mention of_the fact that practically lo'/^ of the 

 general population suffer at one or another period 

 from tuberculosis. 



I do not say that alcoholism and tuberculosis are 

 not associated, it is quite possible they may be, but 

 a statement such as that I have quoted proves no- 

 thing of the sort, and is entirely misleading unless 

 we are told at the same time the percentage of the 

 tuberculous in the same class of the general popu- 

 lation, which in this case was not stated. 



We have two series of statistics for studying the 

 question of the effect of drink, the Edinburgh Charity 

 Organization Society Report and the statistics pro- 

 vided for us by Miss Dendy. 



We will consider first the results obtained from 

 the Edinburgh statistics, which are given in the next 

 table. 



Table IV. 



Here we see that drink in the parents has no effect 

 on the intelligence of boys or girls, and practically 

 none on the height and weight of boys. In the case 



