MEMOIR ON PARENTAL ALCOHOLISM 21 



employment ; this class contains those who follow trades 

 with seasonal employment as well as the jobbing workers, 

 (iv) Average wage class, those with irregular employment 

 whose average wages are stated, (v) Those with no oc- 

 cupation or employment, being idle, ill, in prison, or 

 incapable of work. 



Now the results are embraced in the table below. Per- 

 sonal judgement will of course arise in classification, but this 

 new table has been formed in perfect independence of the 

 former table, and the general results are in close agreement. 



Now this table shows several points : {a) that when in 

 regular employment the drinker is worth is, a week less 

 than the sober. This is exactly what we stated in our 

 Memoir ; [b) that in casual or irregular labour he gets paid 

 the same or slightly more ; but {c) that on the whole he 

 is more frequently out of employment, as evidenced by 

 the average wages when given. The general mean of all the 

 wages is i^. id. less for the drinking section than for the 

 sober. Now these wage data will be found more fully dis- 

 cussed in a paper just published in the Journal of the Royal 

 Statistical Society^ but they seem to us to demonstrate 

 that our original point was correct, namely, that the wages 

 do not indicate that the drinking workman belongs to an 



* VoL xxiv, p. 221, 



