ALCOHOLISM CAUSES INCREASE OF DEATHS ACCORDING RECORDS
A life insurance company reports that deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 were approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year, the rate among its more than seventeen million industrial policy holders being three and three-tenths per hundred thousand against two and nine tenths a year earlier. The same report gives cirrhosis of the liver, described as closely associated with alcoholism, a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand, slightly below that for the same period last year but a little higher than the six and three-tenths recorded for the same period of 1924.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) - Deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 was approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year. Among the more than seventeen million industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan life insurance company, the death rate was three and three-tenths per hundred thousand and for the same period last year it was two and nine tenths. The company reported cirrhosis of the liver, closely associated with alcoholism, has accounted for a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand which is slightly below that for the same period last year, but a little higher than for the same period of 1924, which was six and three-tenths.
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ALCOHOLISM CAUSES INCREASE OF DEATHS ACCORDING RECORDS
A life insurance company reports that deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 were approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year, the rate among its more than seventeen million industrial policy holders being three and three-tenths per hundred thousand against two and nine tenths a year earlier. The same report gives cirrhosis of the liver, described as closely associated with alcoholism, a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand, slightly below that for the same period last year but a little higher than the six and three-tenths recorded for the same period of 1924.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) - Deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 was approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year. Among the more than seventeen million industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan life insurance company, the death rate was three and three-tenths per hundred thousand and for the same period last year it was two and nine tenths. The company reported cirrhosis of the liver, closely associated with alcoholism, has accounted for a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand which is slightly below that for the same period last year, but a little higher than for the same period of 1924, which was six and three-tenths.
Reproduced unchanged from Seward Daily Gateway, November 2, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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ALCOHOLISM CAUSES INCREASE OF DEATHS ACCORDING RECORDS
A life insurance company reports that deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 were approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year, the rate among its more than seventeen million industrial policy holders being three and three-tenths per hundred thousand against two and nine tenths a year earlier. The same report gives cirrhosis of the liver, described as closely associated with alcoholism, a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand, slightly below that for the same period last year but a little higher than the six and three-tenths recorded for the same period of 1924.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) - Deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 was approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year. Among the more than seventeen million industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan life insurance company, the death rate was three and three-tenths per hundred thousand and for the same period last year it was two and nine tenths. The company reported cirrhosis of the liver, closely associated with alcoholism, has accounted for a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand which is slightly below that for the same period last year, but a little higher than for the same period of 1924, which was six and three-tenths.
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ALCOHOLISM CAUSES INCREASE OF DEATHS ACCORDING RECORDS
A life insurance company reports that deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 were approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year, the rate among its more than seventeen million industrial policy holders being three and three-tenths per hundred thousand against two and nine tenths a year earlier. The same report gives cirrhosis of the liver, described as closely associated with alcoholism, a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand, slightly below that for the same period last year but a little higher than the six and three-tenths recorded for the same period of 1924.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) - Deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 was approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year. Among the more than seventeen million industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan life insurance company, the death rate was three and three-tenths per hundred thousand and for the same period last year it was two and nine tenths. The company reported cirrhosis of the liver, closely associated with alcoholism, has accounted for a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand which is slightly below that for the same period last year, but a little higher than for the same period of 1924, which was six and three-tenths.
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ALCOHOLISM CAUSES INCREASE OF DEATHS ACCORDING RECORDS
A life insurance company reports that deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 were approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year, the rate among its more than seventeen million industrial policy holders being three and three-tenths per hundred thousand against two and nine tenths a year earlier. The same report gives cirrhosis of the liver, described as closely associated with alcoholism, a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand, slightly below that for the same period last year but a little higher than the six and three-tenths recorded for the same period of 1924.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) - Deaths from alcoholism during the first nine months of 1926 was approximately 14 per cent as compared with the same period of last year. Among the more than seventeen million industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan life insurance company, the death rate was three and three-tenths per hundred thousand and for the same period last year it was two and nine tenths. The company reported cirrhosis of the liver, closely associated with alcoholism, has accounted for a rate of six and six-tenths per hundred thousand which is slightly below that for the same period last year, but a little higher than for the same period of 1924, which was six and three-tenths.
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