| Abstain- ers. |
Admis- sions. |
Non-Ab- stainers. |
Admis- sions. | ||||||
| 1878* | 60th Rifles, 2nd Batt. | 273 | 75 | 294 | 130 | ||||
| 1874–75† | 65th Regiment | 252 | 59 | 621 | 357 | ||||
| 1874† | 5th Fusiliers, 1st Batt. | 229 | 38 | 487 | 365 | ||||
| 1877–78‡ | 54th Regiment | ||||||||
| 1877–78„ | 25th Regiment„ 1st Batt. | 791 | 567 | 1621 | 1663 | ||||
| 1877–78„ | 92nd Highlanders | ||||||||
| Total | 1545 | 739 | 3023 | 2515 | |||||
| * 5 months. † 6 months. ‡12 months. | |||||||||
This gives the following percentage of admissions—
| Abstainers | 47·8 per cent. |
| Non-Abstainers | 83·2 per„ cent.„ |
"91. The table previously given, compiled from Dr. Ogle's report, also proves conclusively that alcohol not only jiroduces its own special diseases, but renders its consumers more liable to die from other complaints, such as diseases of the nervous and circulatory systems, gout, and phthisis, and even from suicide.
"92. In 1872 Dr. Dickinson gave the details of diseases, verified by post-mortem examination at St. George's Hospital, of 149 traders in liquor and of 149 men who belonged to all kinds of other trades. Comparing them as to exposure to the weather, it was found that of the alcoholic traders four-sevenths worked indoors; of the others, three-sevenths. The average age of the liquor-traders at death was 36·8 years; of the others, 40·6 years.
| alcoholic. More frequent. |
non-alcoholic. More frequent. |
| Empyema. | Pneumonia, rather more. |
| Tubercular diseases, much more. |
|
| (Multiple tubercle, 61 cases.) | (Multiple tubercle, 44 cases.) |
| Tubercles of brain, liver, kidneys, bowels, mesen- teric glands, and peri- toneum, twice as common. Atheroma and fatty degener- ation of heart and arteries. |
