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Show Increase of Women Drunkards. British figures relating to deaths resulting from f alcoholic excess in the decade ending with the lat century were appalling. The number of such deaths among women in 1900 was more than double the number in 1S91, and the increase is far greater than in the case of deaths of males. The figures given j in the annual report of the registrar general .-how conclusively that drunkenness, especially anionic women, has markedly increased during the pa.-t twenty years. They are as follows: England and Wales. Females: Alcoholism, de- t lirium tremens, for 1891, 740; for 1900. ,oo: for 1902,1.111. ilales: Alcoholism, delirium trcmcn. for 1891, 327; for 1900, 2.0G3; for 1902, l.73. Compared with the number of deaths from thc.-e ; causes amongst women in 38-So, which was 937. hc figure for 1900 is all the more striking. Cirrhosis ' of the liver, which is induced by alcoholic excess, accounted for the deaths of 1.37 women in 1; 2,112 in 1900, and 1,770 in 1902. In Ireland a similar simi-lar state of affairs prevails. The report of the registrar reg-istrar general just issued shows that it 1891 nineteen nine-teen women died from delirium tremens and chroni'-alcoholism, chroni'-alcoholism, and in 1900 this number had increased , to forty-one, an increase, as in this country, of ever ) 100 per cent. The deaths of males, on the oilier ; ' hand, from the same cause had increased only from 112 to 110. j |