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Show 5757 DRUNKARDS IN NEW YORK CITY M sasaaaaaa j Statistics on Hsbitu:l Soaks in the Nation's Metropolis. - NEW YORK, May 30-There are at least 8757 common drunkards In Manhattan! Manhat-tan! and the Bronx, according to a cen-' cen-' sua" taken by the officials of Bellevue and allied hospitals. Of these, OS are chronic drunkards, men and women who are always mors or less under the Influence Influ-ence of-liquor, never drawing a really sober breath. They axe virtually a charge on the community. ' " " - - All the worst cases go to BeUsvua 830. of whom 08 were chronic. Oouvar-ur Oouvar-ur got 226, f whom W ware chronic. There ia apparently, the officials say. . lt-sa bard drinking in Harlem than in the lower part of Manhattan, and hardly any at all in tha Bronx. The Hariem , hoa-pltal hoa-pltal treated only 117 drunkards, of whom but eight were chronica. In hara hoapltal, which covers the Bronx, there -were, all told, only forty-five drunkards drunk-ards under treatment, of whom only three were habitually addicted to exces-slve-Indulgence. - Drinking does not" seem to be such a terribly fatal indulgence. Out of over WOO chronic cases at Bellevue. only WO died lesa than 4 per cent. The mortality mortal-ity in tuberculosis Is X per cent. The ' mortality in cancer la 75 per cent. March ia a bad time for drunkards. Mere of them die then than In any other month. The hospital aurgeons aay It Is because the victlma have been worn out . bv the hardahlpe of the winter season. Of the 200 chronica that died at Bellevue. Belle-vue. onlv 43 were females. |