It has made a study of the incidence of alcoholism in the Police Hospital , through a period of 20 years ( 1944-1964 ) , reviewing medical records of 7819 Psychiatrist Department . There were found 278 individuals (3.5 percent) that corresponded to the diagnosis of the different forms of alcoholism. Age at onset as social drinkers , the type of beverage ingested and frequency of intake was considered ; appreciated that 68.3 percent of subjects hcbíon started drinking before age 25. ; 70.6 percent drank daily admission to hospital • ... and 74.1 percent ate drinks with high alcohol concentration. Frequency was studied at different stages of the addiction and found to be 85.5 percent were alcoholómanos , social drinkers and 6.8 percent symptomatic drinkers 5.4 percent . Presentation of the different classical clinical forms was also investigated , highlighting the high frequency of del...