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AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING.

At Binghampton, State of New York, there exists an inebriate Asylum, which has just completed the sixth year of its existence, and been so successful as to lead to the establishment of eleven similar institutions in other parts of the United States, and two in Canada. Its medical superintendent, Dr Dodge, argues that intemperance is a disease, resulting in the main from a constitutional susceptibility to the alcoholic impression, that the tendency must be cither inherited or acquired, and that it is curable in the same sense that other diseases are. He thus states the result of his six years’ experience. Of the 253 ptients discharged last year, 196 left the asylum with great hopes of a permanent reformation, and Fifty-seven quitted it unimproved ; 237 were smokers, and 183 were whisky drinkers. A table of their occupations shows that sixtytwo were merchants, thirty-one were clerks, fifteen were bookkeepers, seventeen were lawyers, eleven were manufacturers, eleven were physicians, and five were clergymen. The asylum contains a library and reading room, an “Ollapod Club,” and a printing office, from which is issued a weekly paper of eight pages, entitled The Jiecord. 'i he .■State Legislature contributes an annual sum to the support of the Institution ; and, in return, confers upon justices of the peace authority to commit to the asylum any person who is so lost to self-control, through drink, as to be unable to attend to business, or who is too dangerous to be allow'ed to remain at large. The success of this Binghampton Institution has attracted attention in various parts of the world, as Dr Dodge received letters from all parts of America, England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Australia, asking for the charter, bye-laws, and reports of the Institution.

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Evening Star, Issue 3305, 23 September 1873, Page 3

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AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING. Evening Star, Issue 3305, 23 September 1873, Page 3

AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING. Evening Star, Issue 3305, 23 September 1873, Page 3

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