DEATH STREET.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 24, 9 August 1884, Page 3

DEATH STREET.

(advertisement.)' Mr Hoyle, a British statistician, gives the fearful picture, wha< he terms a bird's- eye- view, of the results of the drink traffic. *'* I have alf cad j stated that it the drink-shops of the United Kingdom were placed end to end they would form i a street stretching* from Land's End in Cornwall to John o' Groats at the north 'df "Scotland, over 640 miles. Let us suppose the street, along with its needful appendages, formed. What, would the picture be like I In the first place, to grow 80,000.000 bushels of grain or produce necessary to manufacture the L 134.000.000 worth of drink which has yearly been consumed since* 187,0, aicoriifield would be needed stretching two and a halt miles on each side of the street — that is, a cornfield,Cftvjefsniles wide.VandVstf etch - ing the whole length from Land's Egd ~tb; J'dhfyAP) Qfoa**- ket (the reader imagine such a cornfield, so wide and, stretching I ' o*4o miles in length, and: think of all (the gram produced from it being* destroyed in manufacturing intoxicating liquors. Suppose we start -from Land's End along the street.. On thelright-hand ►Ide every quarter- tof a-mile there would be" a rmaltVihanuUictofy, and every two miles a. distillery . t .On the loft-hand *side ofi the street 'every three-quarters of Simile .there would be a taruo union workhouse, in which to lodge . in-door paupers, wfio hail been impoverished by drinkintr ; and ia addition a row of houses the whole %ingth of the • street for : out-door pauper". •' When' wed had '"proceeded two miles there would be areformatorj for The reclamation of young criminals; ' bavin,! gone two wiles further there would be a huge county goal to lodge adult criminals ; and two miles further a monster lunatic asylum. These detached establishments would all be repeated .at similar distances from end to, end of the street. To os continued. „A" '. '