By law a pub can never be overcrowded – there is always room for one more drinker at each table – no matter how squashed people are.

Chapter 270: Section 5. Giving, selling or delivering alcoholic beverages or drugs to hospital patients; possession. Section 5. Whoever, except under the direction of a physician, gives, sells or delivers alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, or a narcotic drug to a patient in any hospital who is…