Abstracts. Vol. 38, No. 2-3 (1957)

A 1956 review of the literature on alcoholism shows that the ratio of men to women with alcoholism was 6 : 1 in the United States, 2 : 1 in England, and 28 : 1 in the Scandinavian countries. In 1953, there were 4.5 million alcoholics in the United States; the male-to-female ratio among them was 5.5 : 1; there were 43.91 alcoholics per 1,000 adults. Compared to 1940, the number of alcoholics had increased by 44%. In Sweden, after 40 years of restrictions on the sale of alcohol, the number of alcoholics has increased by 125%, in large cities by 200% and among women by 80%.