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Women and Drink Let your BOAC

BRITA

RITAIN'S wine trade is booming, whisky sales are up, gin has doubled its pre-war peak, vodka consumption has soared 1,000 per cent in five years and lager sales have trebled in three.

And the people whe have brought prosperity to the drinking business pre-wuen,

position it held in 1939.

Take

SLOWLY, SIP BY SIP ONE OF THE BIGGEST

REVOLUTIONS OF OUR TIME

the

by Sally Vincent

beer

drinker the light, dry, ladylike always trental beer. British masculine brewers Hold her

olid responsible for, the £11,000,000 perry is almod at the middle- class woman who couldn't think still spent on Inger last year.

Con- manufacturers, over 10 years. lager Like lager, the appeal of the of champagne largely tiny bottles

It has taken 15 years for the Nquor trade fo TEKUT the Traditionally, this hos

intensely bern an Fifteen years while women personification of tive added the indisprudence Brilish workman. He is foreed on them during the war raising his tankard, but he has and eme to the last stages of been joined by others. their emun ipation,

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Now, with practically every Fiqur manufacturer uiming at the fatale market, women have shed the last of their inhibi

tions

Beer...

The young, modern woman has made beer a socially ac- First cane the well-bred, ceptable drink and lager (the squde-coated, county-type only beer ever to get the snob young lady who came into the description "dry") is the aristo- Dar from the car park entranes at of the brewery, and found she could get away with held a pint of bitter.

Perry.

UCL

The The maxim

all

Kingsley Arais "beer makes you has been replaced by beer will thought that

Boy Cat wasn't really sur-

could have -prising-she

anything.

the away with

The hand that rocks cradle has a firm' held on the average girl could never bring drunk" bottle Women have inally herelf to drink beer. She was the established their right to stand to spustented to drink cider, refresh you. with men at a bar,

te kind to spet to be treated

that

other

woman's

of anything to drink a decade ago.

Gin is the only spirit not only

to reach its pre-war peak of popularity but to have doubled

it. Distillers attribute the rising juices and is therefore duli.

white introduced the idea that "vodka leaves you breathless." The tenfold increase in vodica since its introchiction ziow

divas the distillers breathless. And 70 per cent of all vodka drakers are women,

Last year, wine sales were higher than for 20 years. Again, women are largely responsible, Because wine. Is sold mainly front off-licences to those wives who are raising their standards of living by putting wine on their shopping. lists.

The proportion of liquot taken home is now higher than ever before. Ten years ago only about 40 per cent of liquor was drunk at home-now it is up to 50 per cent.

.....

And openly

men

Ten years ago there was only stles to the fact that gin is now While whisky is still the highest one woman to every 10 firmly established as a woman's selling spirit of all, the increase who was so seriously worried as about her, drinking that she drink. Last year £60,000,000 in stles Is nowhere near

became a member of Alcoholies was, spent on gin, an 18 per cent Impressive as for gin.

Anansinous. Now there is one Perhaps the most startling increase on the figure for five verrs ago.

woman-made trend of all is the woman member to every three Increased demand for vodka. It has taken only five years for wonon to reject thoughts of hurled glasses, salt mines, and stil! gopeks that went with vodka Not and accept it as a funinine un- drink.

Vodka...

This is because women While lager has trebled in The days when a woman's to spirits, and too grown up

three years, do ab drink whisky. sirink was something rather for fnit juice. So she kept out popularity over

choice because they feel it is an Cuilty with a cherry in it are of Is; altogether,

drinks but because champagne perry, has quadrup- feminine

Vodka sales first started to over. Today a wont's drink

with rocket two years ago when an is the most important plasstul

discovered lager led its sales in five years make whisky cannot be mixed she

millionaires of the major the

copy- current variety of fruit enterprising American and created a new fashion for ing in the bar.

When

men.

The organisation refutes that this means women we drinking more heavily than they did 10 years ago. Their Interpretation, and I believe they are right, is that women are simply not as startive about their drinking as they used to be.

→(London Express Service).

Unsuspected Murderers!

Out now: absolutely incredible. evidence on how many killers are getting away with it

"

FOR every murderer brought to-trial dozens go unsuspected because incre- dible loopholes in the law enable them to get their victims certified as dying from natural causes.

This is the inescapable conclusion which emerges from a devastating indictment of the arrangements for disposing of human bodies in twentieth- century Britain, put forward recently.

Evidence assiduously arsem- bled by Dr John Havard, barrister and medical mari, shows that the regulations

governing death verificates are so lax and ill-defined that they favour the weret murderer to an astonishing degree.

This is true not only f poixers but of killers who stab, hout, and even bludgeon their victims.

Slashing

by

CHAPMAN PINCHER

Renty а London doctor eventually led to signed a death certificate with- for manslaughter. out viewing the body which, on inquiry, turned out to be alive. Even post-mortems often fail to reveal existing evidence of and well.

murder. because in rural areas How accurate is a death verti- most of them are carried out by ficate even when signed by a family doctors with no special doctor who has viewed the training. body?

Many doctors take a casual look at the face only-some- times because the body is already laid out and they do not wish to disturb ft.

a conviction Though still legal in Scotland, this is ilegal in England because it offers the chance for forgery.

Would such a forgery gö undetected? Possibly, con sidering that many death certificates are so illegible that 25,000 of them have to be returned to doctors every year!

The growing

Forgery

of

practice In one case a pathologist was cremation-one person in every called in to see a child's body three is now cremated-is, help- because the doctor doing the Yet brutal violence can escape post-mortem could find no cause

ing to combat the secret killer, because the conditions gover- detection this

Bullet for death. When he tumed the wounds can be obscured by thick body on its back which then it are much more strict than hair. A man shot through the doctor had failed to do marks those governing burial. But one development assists the mur- mouth may look uninjured if his of strangulation were obvious.

derer the increasing practice of

After a man lay unconscious

A doctor is not legally obliged tically confused. A doctor can o view the body the signing certify the death of any patients the certicate unless it is to be he attends during their last mouth is closed. cremated. Yet the statistics illness," but if this has been prove number of holies which are seen them for weeks. viewed, the greater is the pro- doubtful

In

a survey involving embalming, which nullifes mos: that the greater the prolonged he may nut have for days while hospital nurses more than 1,400 certified of the tests for poisons.

More than 100,000 peo part of COSOF ple are certified dead each though to be reported to the year in Britain without ones to ingest. being seen after death by their doctors,

The certificates are signed on the evidence of the illnesses for which they were buing treated, Yet many of these people may, In fact, have been murdered,

In "The Detection of Secret Homicide," fine work

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Thus,

Bullets

dressed a scalp wound believed fatalities, later subjected Children

caused by a fall, a chance X-ray to post-mortem examina- revealed a bullet in his brain.

Dr Havard claims that many doctors hand the death certi

Dr

with

A child who fell out of the big tion, there was frank dis- between the

In his book, issued by the wheel at a fair was diagnosed as agreement

Institute of Criminology, dving from a fractured skull doctors about the cause of Harvard is specially concerned doctor give a one

about the legal facility of certificate of death from lung. The undertaker found a small death in 260 of them, neholarship, Dr Havard shows humorrhage because he heard hole in the scalp caused by a

which babies can be murdered. The whole system for that a bronchitic patient nad stray bullet from the nearby

New-born children can be. kbl- that

with blood roun the shooting gallery.

ed with little sign of external issuing certificates is fantas- died

visience unless the body is examined by an expert patho logist. So it is difficult for a family doctor to decide whether a child was genuinely still-bom, as a mother may claim, or has been killed.

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mouth. Later it was found that A post-mortem on a child at ficate to relatives for delivery to *Published by Macmillan, the man' throat was out from Guy's Hospital revealed a cock the registrar, who reports to the

car lo car.

fixed in its throat. A confession coroner

CHOIR PRACTICE

E

A

In doubtful cases.

Agreeing with the Rev. Horace Spence who last week condemned children's hymns as "childish, sentimental or of introspective

character" I offer the above illustration of some of the hymns he refers to.

A, ‘All things bright and beautiful.'

B. 'You in your biküll Zother.

?

Fight the

the good fight."

B.

Peace, perfect peace

D. 'We are but Uuli Children weak.

Like a little endtis

Lamda Express Service.

Loopholes

The cremation ata supposedly -born baby may be allowed without, any doctor or midwife: being at the birth and without any Dostmortem inquiry.

A further loophole, which neods eliminating, is the doctor's legal power to certify the death of his wife or any other relà- Lives. Dr Robert G. Clements, of Southport, who commited, suicide while police investigated the death of his fourth wife, had, also certified the deaths of his three previous wives.

Lück

Perhaps the strongest evi, dence in support of Dr Harvard's claims, is the disturbing, number of cases, in which murders Bre discovered only by chance.

Smith, the fifamous "Brides in the Bath" murderer, drowned three wives by holding their legs out of the water white they were in, the bath.

A crimes were

discovered

only because a casual newspaper reader noticed the similarity of the cases While rudrig the the queste, Boones. 61 poisoners have been poolshed only because chaque suspicion by neighbours led do exhumation of their

These murderers

derers simply

bad Wick. How many with Tick Do their side are still aming

~~(London Express Service).

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