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Show SWEDEN TO VOTE ON PROHIBITION STOCKHOLM. July . Sweden's prohibition campaign, now at Us height, has become largely a battle I of statistic?, W ht'e tli - dry ' forces ! point with pride to tho f.ict that ihey 'won a victory n the IUksdn when ! that body .voted to hold a C nsu1ta-tlve nsu1ta-tlve pleblsolte of the "wet" and " dry" the antl-prohlbif lonlsts are quoting government statistics and the reports Of no dical aurtorltles. 'ihe reports of the government district physicians scattered all over Lie country are now being received by' the Swedish Medical Board which re-, cently went on record against total prohibition. DRUNKENNESS DECREASE Virtuall all of the physicians re-1 port that drunkenness appears to be 'decreasing In h'lr respective dls- 1 trlcts, and that In many parte of ir.ej country home-brewing is declining.' The Royal Social Hoard s latest re-1 port shows that during the first I quarter of this year inebriety showed) a further decline; there being only cases of drunkenness reported throughout Sweden The report sots forth also that during 1S21 Norway! and Finland both prohibition coun J tries were more wet in spots than Sue, ion with her liquor rationing .-'stem. Thus during 1021 Sweden' quarterly reports showed between T.OOu and 8,000 cases of drunkenness drunken-ness while prohibition Norway, with about half of Sweden a population, had an average of nearly 0.000 cases of inebriety offenses during each quarter. |