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v. social movements.
Yearly Consumption of Spirits per Inhabitant, 1906—10.
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60 % Alcohol
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of teetotallers attached to temperance organizations and religious bodies can be
assumed with certainty to be somewhat over half-a-million. Those who belong
to no organization cannot be computed, but they are likely to be not
inconsiderable in number.
The consumption of intoxicants in Sweden during the first half of the
19th century must have been very great but, as we have said already, no
reliable returns are available. Nevertheless, since 1355 we have, thanks
to the control over spirit distilleries, quite reliable reports on the consumption
of spirits. No really reliable information is at hand concerning the consumption
of beer before the middle of the ’nineties, when trade statistics began to be
compiled, and these furnish a more complete basis of calculation. Control over
malt liquors was introduced on Oct. 1st, 1903, and this enables as to estimate
quite exactly the consumption of beer since 1904.
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