The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
By ROY A. HAYNES U, S. Prohibition CommissiOner

While New York city's population had increased over 10 per cent, her death rate in 1921 had decreased by 23 per cent and fraction since 1915. The death rate of children under years fell off 2S per cent within single year.
 death rate decreased by IS per cent, and for children under years by 25 per cent.
 Drunkenness decreased throughout the state in some places over 80 per cent. Comparing the last two wet years with the first two dry ones, the following figures on decreases in arrests for drunkenness give pie ture of what has been going on in the state of New York:
 Albany, s1 per cent; Binghamton, 20; Buffalo, 4S; Elmira, "A Geneva, S3; Gloversville, 53; Jamestown, 55; Kingston, 60; Lockport, 5; Niagara Falls .4S; ogdensburg, s1; oswego, Troy. 50; Utica, 55; White Plains, 30; Mount Vernon, 22; New York city, AZ. The movement toward health, san ity, increased usefulness and pros perity that we found in Michigan has been just as marked and just as V gether as In New York. The great forces underlying ational prohibition are the same everywhere, and their manifestations in the national we'll being are irresistibly of the same general character. regardless of To- cation, population, creed, tradition or blood.
 Take a few quick cross-sections from other parts of the country:
 o O O California > Arrests for drunkenness: Average years as compared with the average for the last three dry years. de- crease of 47 per cent
 Population of the state peniten- tiary: A decrease of 2o5 per cent
 Deaths from alcoholism: A de- crease of "A per cent
 Alcohol insanity: A decrease of 47 per cent
 Arrests for all causes, city of San Francisco: A decrease of 35 per cent. Savings and bank deposits: An in- crease of 46 per cent; 37 per cent in actual numper of accounts. Massachusetts
 Arrests for drunkenness: A heavy decrease during the three dry years as compared with the last three wet years.
 Population of State Reformatory for Women: A decrease of s4 per cent.
 Population of State Reformatory for Men: decrease of s9 per cent. m,..our, o o 0
 Arrests for drunkenness: In the largest cities and towns decrease of 70 per cent during the three dry years, as compared to the last three wet years.
 New Jersey.
 Newark Arrests for drunkenness: Average for the last three wet years, as compared with the average for the last three dry years, a decrease of 26.6 per cent.
 Patterson: A decrease of 24.1 per cent.
 Jersey City: A decrease of 14.s per Deaths from alcoholism for the state: Decrease of 4s per cent.
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 Arrests for drunkenness, except Kent county: A decrease from 2,703 in 1919 to 629 in 10 months of 1922. New Castle County workhouse: Population in 1916, 462 inmates; in 1917, 45S; in 1918. SIS; the number gradually decreased from then on to 1922, when there were 263 inmates.
 Offenses against chastity: A de- crease from 1Ss in 1916 to 66 in 1922. Juvenile offenses: A decrease from s45 in 1918 to 615 in 1922
 Savings and bank accounts: An in- crease from S15,5o7,356 in 1917 to s34,650,2S0 in 1929.
 School attendance: From 1917 to 1922, an increase of 2,7SS.
 Insurance in force: In 1916, S3S,- 143,s31! in 1922. ss3,SS5,G09.
 Out of IFS former saloons and breweries all but 10 are now occu- pied by legitimate business cocers.
 Murders; Twenty in 1918; in 1922.
 o O O Pennsylvania.
 Arrests for drunkenness in Phila- delphia: First two dry years com Col, where they will remain for two