One hundred and forty-five of these were insane, sixty-two were criminals, and one hundred and ninety-seven drunkards.

Of course all this cannot be attributed to alcohol alone.

There is first to be considered a probable variation in the nervous system which is expressed in the alcoholic habit; second, the environment consisting in poverty, bad associates, etc., which the alcoholic habit brings; third, the alcohol alone.

That defective inheritance so frequently takes the form of alcoholism is largely due to the environment.

There has never been the opportunity to study on a large scale the effect of the complete deprivation of alcohol from a people living in the environment of modern civilization.