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Show DRINK CUTS INCOME OF POOREST MOST i y Special Na taevlo. ' NKW YORK. Junt 1. From 1H to 1 per cent of th income of th average aver-age workingman 1 spent for liquor, according to an Investigation Just completed com-pleted by nursea of th department of health her. Of SOO famiHe visited, only seventy-seven seventy-seven reported that no alcoholic bev-eraares bev-eraares were need. Of ninety-three families In which the tncome was more than tlOO a month, seven uaed no liquor, liq-uor, fourteen spent more than fit a month, sixteen from M to 19 and four- : teen from IS to $6 on liquor. Of thirty-eight thirty-eight families getting from 111 to lift I a month, two listed no expense for , liquor and the other apent from 92 it j flft a month. Four whose Income la from 141 to a month spent more than one-fourth of it for whisky or beer, and out of eighty-eeven famihea who Income are from 171 to ISO a month, thirty-eight thirty-eight said they apent more than 10 per cent for liquor. Th Income studied ranged from $40 a month upward up-ward and It waa found that the relative rela-tive amount apent of alcoholic drinks was laraer among; the families having the smaller Income. |