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Show Clermanr. "Statistics regarding drunkonness are very difficult to obtain In Germany, because drunkenness Is looked upon with so great leniency, and Is not usually usu-ally classed among crimes. Even tho prosldent ot tbo best-known temperance temper-ance society In Gormany declares that 'a man may get drunk a good many times without being In the least addicted ad-dicted to drink, or In danger ot becoming be-coming so.' Careful and conservative estimates put the number of habitual drunkards at 400,000. Ot the 28,300 patients In the Insano asylums ot Prussia In the year 1889, not less than ten per cent, had delirium tremens.'" |