EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL 



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The increase in deaths after 1922 is undoubtedly due partly to 

 the dangerous quality of bootleg liquor. 



The effect of alcohol on the mortality of offspring. Professor 

 Laitinen, Dr. Stockard, and other experimenters have worked 

 with guinea pigs and white rats to learn if alcohol has any effect 

 upon the birth rate and death rate of the offspring. They found 

 that the death rate is much higher in the animals born from 

 alcoholic parents than in those from non-alcoholic parents. The 

 rate of development of the young is faster in the non-alcoholic 

 animals. In other words, the alcoholic animals were not normal. 



Susceptibility to disease increased by alcohol. A good many 

 experiments have been made which prove that alcohol causes 



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There seems to be a close relation between the death rate per 100,000 from alcoholism 

 (lower graph) and from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease caused by alcohol (upper graph). 

 Since the prohibition amendment went into effect in 1019, there has been a decrease in this 

 disease. 



increased susceptibility to disease. Some experiments made by 

 Dr. E. G. Stillman of the Rockefeller Institute show that mice 

 intoxicated with alcohol have much less resistance to pneumonia 

 germs than normal mice. 



Death rates in different occupations. Reports from England, 

 where certain occupations give a special temptation to drink, 

 show that if 100 be accepted as an average death rate, the rate 



