A HOME FOR INEBRIATES.

Evening Star, Issue 3808, 8 May 1875, Page 2

A HOME FOR INEBRIATES.

To the Editor. Sie, I read tbe letter of Dr Bakewell in last evening’s Stab with great interest. lam glad the evils of our social drinking are, at last, forcing themselves on tbe attention of one who is neither a total abstainer nor a bigot* 1 hose who are total abstainers and are said to be bigots, have long enough cried out respect* ing these things, but little notice has been taken of what they said. They were fanatics, one-eyed enthusiasts, looking at every th'ng under the influence of “a bias,” and their re* presentations of the evils of intemperance were to be accepted with a large discount. Now, however, a medical gentleman withevery opportunity of making observations, with.the autho* nty and the conscious responsibility of a professional man, speaks out on the subject, and his, fct itement is as strong .as any which thj most bigoted abstain^ 1 1 has ever 1 in tide. * tells that which is horrible enough to appal eviry nian retaining one spark of humanity, and yet it appeal's that according to his own testimony the half has not been told. But. I would to ask Dr Bakewell if he would npt be acting more philosophically, and more in accordance with the principles and the practice of the noble profession of which he is a distinguished member, if he endeavored to discover and remove the causes which operate # to develope n-ud perpetuate the terrible evils he so vividly depicts and so earnestly deplores, instead of proposing to build a house in which the “poor wretches" of whom he speaks so piteously may be gathered, with a view to the cm* and removal 1 of that, which, according to the ShpeHnfcehd® of the Onghtqu Boyar Insutute, is a self-in. duoed disease.—l aap, ‘ s • • .■ Dunedin, May 7.' 4