Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 7, 9 January 1894 — DRINK AND DEATH. [ARTICLE]

DRINK AND DEATH.

Startling Statistics from Scientists. A report on the inquiry iuto tbe connection of disease with habits of interaperauce, prepared by Dr. Isambard Owen, Secretary of the lnvestigation Committee of the British Medical Association, gives some startling ; statistics for the temperance peoI ple. Particulars have been obtaiued by the committee of 4235 ; cases of deceased livers, aged twenty-five and npward, in whieh the habits of the persou in regard to aleohol were recorded in five classes—total abstainers, habit- ! ually temperate, careless drinkers, free drinlers and decidedly iutemperate. The ages of death in eaeh class show an average as follows; Total abstainers, 51.22 years; habitually temperate, 62.-1 13; careless drinkers, 59.67; free drinkers, 57.59; decidedly intemperate, 52.03. This makes the lowest average duration of life that of tho teetotaler and the highest thht of the moderate driuker, his average being nearly ! eleven years louger. The habitual drunkard averages about a year longer than the total abstaiuer. ‘Anothor table prepared by the committee, from whieh all deaths uuder thirty were excluded, shows the following dnration of life. Total abstainers, 57.31: hahiluall}* temperate, 66.48; careless drinkei*s 61.52; free driukers, | 58.87; decidedly intemperate 53.42. Omitting lives under forty years, tbe average of death was: i i Total abstainers, 62.74; habitually temperate, 67.71; careless drinkers, 64.40; free drinkers,! 61.98; decidedly intemperate, 57.47!

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