Arizona republican., 1921-07-27
Prohibition and the Liver

There people who resent prohibition. who voted for it not realizing the restrictions which would be laid upon them. They merely wanted the saloons put out of business, hoping suppose, and expecting that somehow their sup plies of liquor would be available. Now they set the inconvenience and deprivation to which they have been subjected against the evil effects of alcoholic drinks which have been reduced if not abolished To them it is nothing that the tenancy of jais has been cut down. that the misery of and child rem has been lessened. They pretend sometimes not to accept these facts which supported by the statistics almost every city, and they counter with the crime which has swept the country within the last They do not take into account that the crimes which chiefly constitute the not such crimes drunken ben commit. robbery. hold-ups, burglary activities of gunmen and other violations of the law committed by whose busi- ness it is to be sober and alert
 Here is something for their edificaton by pr. W. A. Evans of Chicago. not prohibitionist but nationally recognized health authority:
 Prohibition may not be workng-at least there pretty good signs that it is working 100 per cent-but there also mighty good signs that partial prohibton-the brand have Is helping out the world.
 In Chicago the physicians at the county hospital tell us they do not have the flood of weekend pneu monias that they troubled with in former days the men who got drunk Saturday. developed pneumonia about Monday. andsdied by the next Sat- urday.
 Far be it from to say that it.was more than coincidence, but do you remember how the sheets were decked with advertisements of whisky as remedy for flu and pneumonia in 1918, and how the death list from flu and pneumonia grew-and how. in January 1920, when the flu came back there no advertisements calling people to drink whisky for the flu, and how the death rate down?
 This story deals with another angle to the whisky situation. In the old days Cook county hos pital each year. took of 150 crrhoss of the liver sometimes called drunkard's liver. 1916 that hospital cared for 160 such There patient with this disease every 1s5 patients of all sorts In 1920 this great hospital only cared for 19 such for each 1466 patients
 The drop has been progressive In 1918 about half many 1917 1919 about half as many as 1918. 1920 about half 1g1s
 Cirrhosis of the liver is slowly developing dis and the county hospital usually gets the and fully developed cases The 1921 will in cude the booze fighters of two three years ago. Therefore expect to get this year that earned their disease by working at the bar before the prohibition law went effect.
 After all. will drunkard's liver disappear from the county hospital? Will have to appeal the patriotic senses to keep it up in order that each medical student may of crrhosis of the liver part of his training?
 I do not think In the first place there is the hooteh brigade. have neghbor who pays three dues in this brigade-one for himself in the daytime and two for himself at highland this loyal l. Der of the order should be able to clinical material few years from now.