Statistics Of Intemperance

The testimony of competent judges is lecided in the opinión that the use of arient spirits is hurtful to heajth and long life, and the old-fashioned calculations of Nei'son, in his " Vital Statistics," are con armed by the researches of the General Life Office. According to these estimates, the probability of death araong drinkers bet ween 21 and 40 years is ten times aB much as ainong the whole population between 41 and 60 years, four times as much ; and among habitual tipplers over 60 years of age, twice as much as among the people at large. In England, 185059, more than 8,000 cases were reported of men who had literally drank themselves to death. Neison has given us bis investigation of 6,111 tipplers; that ou of 1,000, 58.4 die annually, while out o! 1,000 inhabitants of the same age only 19 die. Thus the ïnortality among drinicers is three times as great as in the community at large. He has oarried out his caloulations into all ages, and shown how this chronio self-murder inarvelously diminishes the expectation of life. The highest point as to numbers is found in the years 1851-60, which report 192 men and 44 women intemperate out of 10,000 in England and Wales, and whioh reek on the diminution in the rate of expectation of life accordingly. This last statement is most startling, and shows a fallintr-off in the probable term of life for each ten years, trom 20 to 60 and upward, of respectively 28, 22, 17, 10 and 5 years, with fractions, and amounting to the fearful percentage, respectively, of 35, 38 40, 51 and 63 per cent. of probable lite, a compared with the population. Surel strong drink ia slow tire, and interapranc i. vnlnntarv madness andchronic Buicide