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A CHILD aged SIX had to be treated in casualty for a drink-related illness.

The primary school pupil was one of 175 underage drinkers admitted to just one hospital last year for booze problems.

The shocking figures emerged yesterday in a study of young drinkers in Hull, East Yorks.

Almost 80 per cent of under18s in the city believed they drank too often. A fifth of its under25s were found to be borderline alcoholics.

The 175 kids needing treatment were recorded at the Hull Royal Infirmary.

Wendy Richardson, Hull’s director of public health, said of the figures: “I’m shocked, as any responsible person would be.” Humberside Police have pledged a crackdown on underage drinking after the Hull Citysafe report.

Supt Ian Furlong said the availability of cheap booze was “a real concern”. He called for more investment in treatment programmes.

Hull Citysafe also found 95 per cent of 18 to 25-year-olds were regular binge drinkers.

Project manager Kate Stevenson said: “The results are concerning but they will help us address alcohol misuse with young people as we now understand how severe the problem is.

“The majority who use alcohol ask family or strangers to buy it for them. We need to look at this.”

Does anyone else find this really disturbing. Where were the parents, did they feed him the alcohol or did he find it?

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http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1022798.ece

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