More Drunks Per Gallon

A Science Service dispatch from London quotes a British doctor as observing that the United States has a high percentage of alcoholics in relation, to the amount of alcohol consumed in the U.S.A. America has "a bad head for alcohol," according to Dr. H. Pullar-Strecker, superintendent of Wyke House private mental hospital at Islesworth, England. So, says he, have Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Italy has a good head and France and England have "normal" heads for alcohol. On the other hand, a. Danish authority on alcoholism, Dr. Oluf Martensen-Larsen, recently told Los Angeles newsmen that the countries with the heaviest drinkers also have the greatest number of teetotalers. The heaviest drinking occurs in Scandinavia, Ireland, and Poland, he is quoted in a United Press report.