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Show FIND DRINK EVIL GROWING More Victims Found Among Women in Manufacturing Towns In Great Britain. London. Annual reports from the minor courts of Lancashire show an increase of drinking among women In the manufacturing districts. At Rochdale Roch-dale the justices' records show that in the year past 173 men and 122 women wom-en were arrested for drunkenness against 228 men and only 17 women in the previous year. Rochdale's prosperity, due to the fact that the women of the laboring classes have all the employment they want, and in most cases separation allowances from soldier husbands, is held responsible re-sponsible for the increased drinking. There is one liquor license in the town to every 272 women. Nearly all of the manufacturing places show similar results. The chief constable of Wigan says that in the past six months the number of women visiting bars has almost doubled. A few exceptional places show an improvement im-provement in conditions. |