9 `Beer Corpses' And Other Oktoberfest Trivia

Here is a look at Oktoberfest 1991, by the numbers (the two-week festival ended last week):

-- Visitors: 6.4 million, down slightly from 6.7 million last year. (Italians made up the biggest percentage of foreign visitors, followed by Austrians and Swiss. Organizers reported fewer Americans and Japanese this year.)

-- One-liter mugs of beer consumed: 5.2 million, down from 5.4 million last year.

-- Beer mugs estimated stolen: 200,000, about one-third fewer than last year.

-- Stolen beer mugs recovered: 75,000.

-- Liters of milk served: 25,000.

-- Oxen eaten: 80.

-- Broiled chickens eaten: 750,000 (same as last year).

-- Favorite new dish offered this year: saumagen, or stuffed sow's belly.

-- Trash: About 6,925 cubic meters, down 30 percent from last year.

-- Bierleichen, or beer corpses (passed-out drunks treated at the Red Cross tent): 252, up from 173 last year.

-- Items turned into lost-and-found: About 5,000, including a brassiere, a pair of ski poles, season tickets for a Bavarian soccer team and two pairs of false teeth.

-- Children lost: about 200.

-- Incidents requiring police intervention: 513, up from 414 last year.

-- Arrests: 106, up from 77 last year.

-- Serious injuries with beer mugs as the weapon: 15.

-- Other serious injuries: 23.

-- Deaths: 1 man fatally knifed in a scuffle. Los Angeles Times