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SOBER ENGLAND.

SIR

GEORGE NEWMAN ON, ALCOHOL.

Sir George Newman, Chief" Medical Oficer of the Ministry of Health, giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Licensing, quoted figures showing the death- rates in England during the last three centuries, and pointed out that the highest rates were record. ed between 1701 and 1791, · · After 1871 there was a remarkable de- crease. The high rates coinelded with a wave of alcoholic excess, mainly spirit drinking.

Lord Amulree (the Chairman): Generally speaking I notice that London shows a higher death rate than that for the whole of Eng- land. How do you account for. that?.

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Sir George Newman: I should account for that by saying that life in the Provinces was more healthy than life in London. That differ- ence does not exist to-day because.

Sanitation and elvilisation generally have undergone a much greater degree of evolu- tion in London than throughout the country during the last 150

years.

Probably the dictatic habits of the people are a greater factor in public health than anything else except heredity. Dietary has a more direct and quick result on the health of the people than any other element. I look upon heredity and what I shall call nature on the one hand, and nurture and way of living on the other, as the two fundamental factors that affect the health of the individual and the community.

Sobriety and Longevity. Alcoholism, added, Sir George Newman, rendered people more susceptible to pneumonis, venereal disease and tuberculosis.

I know of no scientific evidence, he continued, in support of the view that alcohol increases or fortifies the natural

powers of resistance of the body to infective processes, or that alcohol directly strengthens the tissues of the body. Alcohol is narcotic rather than stimulant in action; and its main effects apart from the effects of its continued excessive sumption on particular organe, is exerted upon the nervous system. Its nutritional value is strictly limited and transient, and its habitual use as an aid to work is physiologically unsound.

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It cannot be doubted that there has been an amazing transforma- tion in the health of the people, for whom life is wider, better, and longer, and death is more remote. Undoubtedly, many health pro- blems remain, but

The English people are be- coming more sober, more healthy, and longer lived, than in 1720-1750 or in 1832.

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Sir George Newman then re- marked: I have never known 1 highly skilled surgeon-and have met very many from Lister down to the present time- who has felt that, in operating on the living body, and having a body at the mercy of the skill of his fingers, he could do his work better by drinking alcoholle bever- ages. This does not mean that every great surgeon is a teetotaler, but they have to be abstemious.

Sir George further expressed the view that the limitation of open- ing hours for licensed premises had been conducive both to sobriety and to less broken time. in industry. Compared with the Eighteenth Century, he declared, in spite of increased population, the emergence of vast industrial pro- blema, and the varied "emancipa- tions" of recent times, we have a relatively sober England.

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The American opera which Mr. George Antheil is writing, whe- ther for the Metropolitan Opera House or not, will have as its scene a popular restaurant replete with tiled walls and floor with its accompaniment of rattling dishes.

The plot of the opera remains a mystery, but Mr. Antheil's friends say that the opera is strictly ori- ginal and strictly American. The policy of silence is continued at the Metropolitan, although Mr. Otto Kuhn is said to have com- missioned Messrs. Antheil and John Erskine to write the work.

The news of the Inclusion of the restaurant scene came from Tren- ton, New Jarsay this being Mr. Anthell's native town. A friend there received a letter from Mr. Antheil asking him to send photo- graphs showing the exteriors and Interiors of typical popular res taurants.

Mr., Anthell in the "Ballet Mechanique" used everything

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