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Show H TOLL OF 2,000 A DAY. HH According to Doctor Dommo, whd HH studied ten "tompernto families" nnd HH ten "Intemperate families" for 11 years HH In tho samo class of society, tho deatho HH of children under five In tho lattor HH croup woro flvo times as. many as In HH tho former group 25 against flvo. HH Slnco tho deaths bolow tho ago of flvo HHv comprlso 30 per cont. of all tho deaths, HH It Is ovidently more than conservntlvo HH to tako tho comparison of adult males HH given ubovo as a mensuro of tho rav HH oges of alcohol for tho total popular HH tlon, says Richmond P. Hobson, In "Alf HH, cohol and tho Government." If wo HH wero a nation of total abstainers wo HH would dio off at tho rate of 5G0 per HH iGl.OOO of tho population, whereas wo HH -Aro actually dying off at a rate ot HH 3,000 pur G1,000. In other words, nlco- HH Siol causes tho prematuro death of HH 440 clttzens out of ovory G1.000 of tho HH population ovory year, which means HH that alcohol kills about 700,000 Amcrif H can citizens ovory year, about 2,000 a H day ovory day tho sun rises. |