Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 3 | Drinkin Takes Lives of Eleven in N. Y. City

Drinking Takes Lives of Eleven In hi N. N Y City i i Seven Imbibed Too Much Others Poisoned 73 Go Golo Goto to lo Hospitals for Alcoholism NEW YORK TORK Dec Dee 27 AP APPolson AP- AP Poison Polson Christmas liquor and ex excessive ex- ex c drinking today had garnered garnered garnered gar gar- a toll here of ot eleven deaths three les hess than last year and ancI sev sey- three enty persons went to hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- taPe for alcoholism more than for 1924 and 1925 together Eight of the deaths were In Manhattan Manhattan Man Ian hattan and arid three In Brooklyn Improperly Improperly Im Im- properly redistilled alcohol was largely responsible In the opinion of or Dr Charles CharieR Norris chief medical med mea ical examiner Dr Thomas A. A Gonzalea Gonzales Gon- Gon zalea zales assistant medical examiner said however that autopsies s on seven of the dead Indicated that excessive drinking gather Father than poisonous elements clements was ble Dr Norris said the bootleggers were so rushed that in redistilling liquor known to contain poisonous substances they would not take time to purify purity it properly O Of sixty-five sixty cases of or alcoholism reported b. b by Bellevue hospital only fifteen were considered serious and attendants said all probably would recover Twenty of the sixty five were released after treatment In Included Included Included In- In In those admitted were eight women I Only one victim of or bad liquor was reported In Chicago over the weekend weekend week week- I end But Dr Herman N. N Bundesen city health commissioner there es estimated estimated es- es esI I that poison polson costing UPward uPward upward up uP- I ward of was distributed in that city as gifts Probably not more than 8 per cent of ot this liquor liquor was genuine he said and advised advised advised ad ad- that if you must drink first take the liquor to a chemist In Poughkeepsie N. N Y a railroad workman died from drinking homemade homemade home home- made mache liquor