Gin+Craze

The **Gin Craze** occupied the first half of the 18th century when many people overconsumed and the city had a virtual epidemic of extreme drunkenness. 

 Magistrates were already decrying gin as " ** the principal cause of all the vice & debauchery ** committed among the inferior sort of people".

The British government tried a number of times to stop the flow of gin by taxing the liquor.