The psychology of alcoholism / by George B. Cutten.

  • George Barton Cutten
Date:
1907
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The psychology of alcoholism / by George B. Cutten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    32/388 page 8
    — kroners; her alcoholic bill amounts to 63,500,000 kroners. With a population of only three million, Switzerland spends 264,000,000 marks per year for liquor. In regard to England, the Rev. John Watson says, “It is calculated that an average English drink bill for the United Kingdom for 1905 was com- puted to be no less than 4£164,167,941 ($797,856,193); computing the population of the United States at 86,000,000, Britain’s bill is comparatively larger. James D. Whelpley, writing in 7he Saturday Evening Post on the terrible destitution in England, says: “It is at these times that the terrible evil of drink, the curse of Great Britain, comes prominently to the fore. The liquor bill of England and Wales amounts to about twenty-two dollars per capita. It is all incurred, The enormous sum of money spent for alcohol must inevitably cause much poverty. The amount of drunkenness caused by poverty cannot be esti- mated, but the amount of poverty caused by drunken- ness can approximately. The replies to questions sent to every almshouse-keeper in the United States show that at least 51 per cent. of the inmates of almshouses became paupers through drink. To put this into statistical form, about 1,530,000 persons who have come to poverty through drink are dependent upon the taxpayers of the country. Warden Roberts, of the New York almshouse on Blackwell’s Island, told the writer that he considered nine-tenths of the inmates, of whom he then had 2,593, came there through drink. Mr. Tudor Trevor says that 70 per cent. of the paupers of England, costing the nation ten million sterling annually, are the result of alcoholic drinking. Japan, with practically the same poor laws as Great Britain, has only 24,000 paupers, while Great Britain has 100,000. A Japanese states-
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3