66% females.

The figures are certainly striking. They show, it will be noticed, that
out of every 100 deaths from alcoholic excess in England and Wales women
contributed nine more at the end of the century then they did in 1880.
If, instead of taking the total number of deaths, we take the ratio per
million persons living, the increase is seen even more clearly:--

+------------------+----------------+----------------+
| Years. | Males per | Females per |
| | million living.| million living.|
+------------------+----------------+----------------+
| 1877-1881 | 60 | 25 |
| 1882-1886 | 67 | 32 |
| 1887-1891 | 79 | 42 |
| 1892-1896 | 86 | 51 |
| 1897-1899 | 103 | 63 |
| 1899 | 112 | 70 |
+------------------+----------------+----------------+

It appears that, while the ratio of mortality from alcoholic excess
increased 87% among males during the last two decades of the century,
among females it increased by no less than 180%.

See also LIQUOR LAWS and TEMPERANCE.

DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579), English statesman and soldier, was a son
of Sir Robert Drury of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire, and grandson of
another Sir Robert Drury (d. 1536), who was speaker of the House of
Commons in 1495. He was born at Hawstead in Suffolk on the 2nd of
October 1527, and was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge. Fighting in
France, Drury was taken prisoner in 1544; then after his release he
helped Lord Russell, afterwards earl of Bedford, to quell a rising in
Devonshire in 1549, but he did not come to the front until the reign of
Elizabeth. In 1559 he was sent to Edinburgh to report on the condition
of Scottish politics, and five years later he became marshal and
deputy-governor of Berwick. Again in Scotland in January 1570, it is
interesting to note that the regent James Stewart, earl of Murray, was
proceeding to keep an appointment with Drury in Linlithgow when he was
mortally wounded, and it was probably intended to murder the English
envoy also. After this event Drury led two raids into Scotland; at least
thrice he went to that country on more peaceable errands, during which,
however, his life was continually in danger from assassins; and he
commanded the force which compelled Edin