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IN a recent paper (Brit. J. Inebriety, 38, 28; 1940) based on his experience at H.M. Liverpool Prison which receives male prisoners from a wide area in the north-west of England and North Wales, Dr. Harvie K. Snell discusses the influence of the outbreak of the present War on drunkenness and attempted suicide, the connexion between which has often been stressed. Under the single heading drunkenness he has included not only simple drunkenness but also cases described as drunk and disorderly, drunk in charge of a vehicle and those charged at the same time with begging and common assault. His figures show the somewhat surprising result that there was a definite decline during the first four months of the War as compared with the previous three years in the number of persons admitted to prison for drunkenness or attempted suicide.
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War, Drunkenness and Suicide. Nature 146, 90 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146090a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146090a0