Table showing the GALLONS of ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS of all kinds consumed in the UNITED KINGDOM for fifty-two years, (1830-1881, inclusive,) and the COST of the same in PERIODS of TEN YEARS each. Gallons. Gallons. Gallons. Gallons. Gallons. 1830 to 1839 1840 to 1849 1850 to 1859 1860 to 1869 1870 to 1879 1880... 1881.... Total 213,849,961 38,306,362 62,380,478 6,268,915,542 75,000,000 717,208,512 240,386,479 48,853,283 65,501,611 6,759,166,212 100,000,000 817,041,512 207,354,312 67,221,637 117,771,416 8,216,360,470 135,000,000 1,020,677,801 279,673,156 101,630,154 167,386,717 10,535,074,558 170,000,000 1,359,887,808 28,457,486 8,477,512 15,852,335 905,088,978 15,000,000 122,279,275 28,780,719 8,295,265 15,644,757 970,788,564 15,000,000 127,074,460 for 52 1,237,287,193 319,705,354 509,449,721 40,299,088,088 585,000,000 £4,926,865,122 Years. 1 For the above Table, the author is indebted to Mr. Wm. Hoyle, an eminent English statistician. British and Foreign Distilled Spirits consumed in the United Kingdom. 1851 of people and 10 millions of gallons per inch in length. The horizontal lines are extended at the rate of 10 millions 1861 1871 1876 1881 37,025,979 gallons. Per capita, 1.05 gallons. This table shows an increase from 1840 to 1876 of 0.30 gallons of spirits per capita, 0.31 gallons of wine, and 0.41 bushels of malt. From 1850 to 1876 the beer increased 11.3 gallons per capita, so that the consumption in 1876 averaged 34.2 gallons, or a little more than oue barrel annually for every inhabitant. It also shows a decrease since 1876, in spirits, 0.22; wine, 0.12; and beer, 6.7 gallons. Cost of these liquors to the United Kingdom was as follows: The data upon which the drink bill of the United Kingdom for 1876 is founded, giving the liquors consumed, as per Excise returns, and the money expended thereon, are as follows: "In 1876, the population of the United Kingdom was 33,089,237, which would give an expenditure of £4 9s. for every man, woman, and child in the kingdom. It is generally allowed by those who have carefully investigated the question that the indirect cost and loss which results from the liquor traffic are at least as great as the direct expenditure upon the drink. If so, then the aggregate cost and loss to the nation of the liquor traffic, during the last year, reached the appalling sum of £294,577,520; but if we make a liberal allowance, and take £54,577,520 off this amount, it still leaves the sum of £240,000,000."1 To a letter addressed by Mr. Wm. Hoyle to the Right Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, November 3, 1881, the following table is appended: These statistics show that in nine years (1867-1875) the apprehensions for drunkenness were more than doubled, notwithstanding the population increased only from 30,334,999, to 32,749,167. This increase the committee found to have been great 1 "Third Report of House of Lords' Committee on Intemperance," p. 300. By Wm. Hoyle, a cotton manufacturer. |