districts in England and Scotland became State Management district; in which some of the powers previously exercised by the Control Control Board were vested in the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland respectively. 6. Circumstances at the outbreak of the present war were entirely different. The drinking habits of the population have radically certain changed as a result not only of the measures taken from 1915 to 1918 but also in consequence of increased excise duties, the improved standard of social conditions, increased facilities for wholesome recreation, and of the better social legislation of the succeeding 20 years.