LETTERS IN BRIEF
"Only a Rat" complains that the earth being taken from Huxley street, Sydenham, is being deposited on the (sections- of a few of tb« residwste, instead of being usld to fill up the disused shingle j>it in the lower part of Huxley etr^i. "Pity" hopes that the meji and, wonoi ■who rioted for continuance at. the recent licensing have read attentively the acojunts toat have appt-ared during th« month of January or cases of death and of crime directly attributed to strong drink. "Our apathy," adds the writer. "is appalling. Drink lias us and deadened our consciences, as a community, to the mental and physical agony, the suffering of the children, the degradation of womanhood, the nlth of all kinds engendered by tin* traffic in etrang driak.'
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11487, 21 January 1903, Page 9
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130LETTERS IN BRIEF Press, Volume LX, Issue 11487, 21 January 1903, Page 9
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