The drink peril in Scotland / by Arthur Sherwell.

  • Arthur Sherwell
Date:
1903
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Credit: The drink peril in Scotland / by Arthur Sherwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is admittedly serious in England, it is less serious in Scotland. But while it is unquestionably true that temperance sentiment is much more advanced in Scotland than it is in England, it cannot be said that the country has made any substantial progress during the last forty or fifty years, and the gravity of the evil is as evident in the national life of Scotland to-day as it was two generations ago. It is much to be regretted that no reliable statistics exist to show what has been the measure of progress —taking the consumption of alcohol of all kinds as the test—made by each division of the United Kingdom during the last fifty years. Certain rough estimates have recently been made by the Inland Revenue authorities of the proportions of wine, beer and spirits consumed in each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom, but these are too uncertain and conjectural to give us reliable figures even for the last ten years, while they are altogether unreliable for any earlier period. Judged however by the consumption of that which is the principal beverage in Scotland—viz. Spirits, for which, happily, reliable statistics are available, it is clear that Scotland has made no progress in the matter during the last forty years. I do not go back farther than forty years because no fair comparison can be made with an earlier period. ^ Prior to the passing of the 1 1 may add that this view is shared by the Inland Revenue authorities to whom I submitted the matter before making the comparison.
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