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TABULAR STATEMENT OF PUBLIC- AND BEER-HOUSES, &C., IN THE BOROUGH OF 

 LIVERPOOL, FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES, FROM 1855 TILL 1865. 



Public- Beer- Drunken cases determined sum- 

 Year, houses. houses. n\arilj by the Justices. 



1855 .... 1447 966 12,819 ) 



1856 .... 1446 967 12,480 ( Total of 4 years, 46,567 ; average 



1857 .... 1454 973 11,439 f per year, 11,641|. 



1858 .... 1482 977 9,829) 



1859 .... 1498 996 11,037 ) m , , . „ oi qq.. 



1860 ... . 1498 988 10 963 ^otal of 3 years, 31 832; average 



1861 .... 1528 970 9^832 j P^"^ ^^^^'^ ^^,^^(^t- 



THE SO-CALLED FREE-TRADE SYSTEM. 



1862 .... 1544 1024 12,076 ) 



1863 .... 1636 927 13,914 ( Total of 4 years, 53,914 ; average 



1864 .... 1667 1007 14,002 ( per year, 13,478i. 



1865 .... 1793 952 *13,922 ) 



Let me compare the number of drunken cases given above with the number of 

 similar cases in other towns, and, first, in the leading commercial and manufac- 

 turing towns. 



LIVERPOOL COMPARED WITH THE LEADING COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING 



TOWNS. 



Birmingham had in 1864 one drimken case determined summarily by the justices 

 in every 232 of the population ; Sheffield, 1 in 195 ; Halifax, 1 in 175 ; Rochdale, 

 1 in 124 ; Leeds, 1 in 121 ; Manchester and Salford, 1 in 116 ; York, 1 in 16 ; Hud- 

 dersfield, 1 in 75 ; Liverpool, 1 in 33. 



But it may be said, and said truly, that Liverpool ought to be compared with 

 seaport towns. Let us so compare them. 



LH'ERPOOL COMPARED WITH THE TOWNS CLASSIFIED IN THE " BLUE BOOKS " 



AS COMMERCIAL PORTS. 



Swansea, 1 in 251 ; Bristol, 1 in 245 ; Southampton, 1 in 194 ; Y'armouth, 1 in 

 168 ; Hull, 1 in 105 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1 in 95 ; Sunderland, 1 in 95 ; Tyne- 

 mouth, 1 in 60 ; South Shields, 1 in 45 ; LiA-erpool, 1 in 33. 



It is often said that the beer-houses are more productive of crime and vice than 

 public-houses. In Manchester we have nearly twice as many beer-houses as there 

 are in Liverpool, and I>iverpool has more than three times as many public-houses 

 as there are in Manchester. Let us compare the two towns with respect to the 

 drunkenness and vice in them. 



LIVERPOOL AND M.\NCHESTER COMPARED IN 1864. 



(Tlie judicial statistics for 1865 not yet received.) 



Population Public- Beer- Drunken 



in 1861. houses. houses. Inquests. cases. 



Liverpool.... 443,938 1667 1007 960 14,002 



Manchester . .357,979 482 1884 616 3,587 



Police. Daily average 



No. in gaol 



"^ 



No. of Men. Cost. Brothels, in the year. 

 £ 



Livei-pool .... 1030 73,606 906 975 



Manchester . . 669 43,713 410 639 



In Manchester we have an enormous amount of pauperism and preventible 

 poverty. Let us see how Livei-pool stands in this in comparison with Manchester. 



* Sir George Grey's Public-house Closing Act came into operation on December 1, 1864, 

 and was consequently in force ten months of the year ending September 29, 1865, and has 

 continued in force since. 



