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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Average Annual Consumption of the Principal Imported and Exciseable Articles per Head, for the Total Population of the united Kingdom

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Average Annual Consumption of the Principal Imported and Exciseable Articles per Head, for the Total Population of the united Kingdom,

AT QUADRENNIAL PERIODS, FROM 1840 TO 1880 INCLUSIVE, AND THEN ANNUALLY. Compiled from STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS. N.B.—The Articles printed in capital letters are those still subject to Customs duties on Importation. The reader will not fail to notice how slow and almost stagnant has been the course of trade in these lew commodities, although in every case they are objects of common demand. Compared with the rapid and enormous increment of the duty.freed articles, they tell their own tale of the folly and suicidal absurdity of a revenue system based on Customs and Excise.

Statement showing the total quantities of British, Foreign, and Colonial Spirits, Foreign Wines, Beer, Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa, retained for Home Consumption in certain years, and the quantity of each consumed per head of population.

Consumption of
Year ended British Spirits. Foreign and Colonial Spirits. Gals, per head of Spirits of Foreign Wines. Beer.
31st Dec. Gallons. Gals, per head. Gallons. Gals, per head. Gallons. Gals, per head. Barrels. Barrels per head
1852 25,200,879 .916 4,866,259 .177 1.093 6.346,061 .231 16,732,454 .608
1863 18,836,187 .644 5,193,641 .177 .821 9,764,155 .334 19,327,191 .661
1872 26,872,183 .844 9,068,329 .285 1129 16,765,444 .527 23,171,661 .885
1882 28,554,264 .809 8,338,578 .236 1.045 14,339,070 .406 27,023,616 .766
1883 28,713,997 .806 8,289,841 .233 1.039 14,287,317 .401 26,828,040 .753
1884 27,994,727 .778 8,165,8.10 .227 1005 13,994,497 .389 27,586,526 .767
1885 26,609,488 .733 8,012,056 .221 .953 13,767,928 .379 27,101,238 .746
Year ended Tea, Coffee. Cocoa.
31st Dec. Population. Pounds. Pounds per head. Pounds. Pounds per head. Pounds. Pounds per head.
1852 27,500,000 54,713,034 1.909 34,978,432 1.207 3,328,528 .121
1862 29,255,015 78,793,977 2.694 34,451,766 1.178 3,622,433 .124
1872 31,835,757 127,661,360 4.010 31,173,555 .976 7,791,763 .245
1882 35,278,999 164,958,230 4.674 31,214,553 .884 11,928,549 .338
1883 35,611,816 170,780,777 4.795 31,562,067 .886 12,888,470 .361
1884 35,951,865 175,000,301 4,869 32.255,699 .897 13,920,272 .387
1885 36,325,115 182,408,830 5022 32,660,320 .898 14,003,067 .402

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