that year there were 187,803 convictions for drunkenness or for offences connected with drunkenness, being a decrease of 9261 on the previous year. And also on page 10 the following :— From the Report on the Operation of the Law on Inebriates published last year (1908) we find that during the nine years in which the Act of 1898 has been in operation 1,751.830 persons were convicted and sentenced, in courts of summary jurisdiction, for drunken behaviour. During last year there were 187,803

more »

... tions for drunkenness, being a decrease of 9261 on the previous year. These convictions were at the rate of 53' 14 per 10,000 of the population, or over 1 for every 200. How many were equally guilty of intemperance who escaped appearing before the magistrates ? Four times as many, may we say ? Again, on page 98, referring to Liverpool, he says :— Drunks, in the year 1889, 40 per 1000 of the population, reduced to, in the year 1903, 10½ per 1000 of the population.