In the State of New York there are at the present time some 30,000 insane persons in public and private hospitals. It is believed that about one fifth of them, or 6000 patients, owe their insanity to alcohol used either by themselves or by their parents. In the asylums of the United States there are 150,000 insane people. Taking the same proportions as before, there are 30,000 persons in this country whom alcohol has made or has helped to make insane. This is the most terrible side of the alcohol problem.
Reference Reading
elementary
Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. American Book Company.
Overton, General Hygiene. American Book Company.
The Gulick Hygiene Series, Emergencies, Good Health, The Body at Work, Control of Body and Mind. Ginn and Company.
Ritchie, Human Physiology. World Book Company.
Hough and Sedgwick, The Human Mechanism. Ginn and Company.