Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 22 October 1892, Page 3

Temperance Items

The United Kingdon Temperance and General Provident Institution :— This institution, which was the first to insure abstainers and moderate drinkers in distinct sections, held its 50th annual meeting on 27th. May, when Mr Robert Warner, its founder, presided. It was originally named " The United Kingdom Total Abstinence Life Association," and insured the liTes of teetotallers only. In 1847 moderate drinkers were admitted and insured in a separate section. The quinquennial division of profits, woicb takes place this year, will exceed a million pounds. The policies at present in force are 44.574 and the nmouitt insured is £11,618.386, the; annual preminms being £345,642. The capital exceeds five millions sterling. In the temperance section the interim bonuses payable with policies becoming claims before 31st December 1895 will be£l 10s per cent, for each year's premium paid since 1890, and in the general section £1 per cent. The expected and actual deaths in the tern» perauce and general sections for the five yeaw 1886 to 1890 were :- Temperance section— Expected deaths: 1472. Actual deaths : 1015. General section— Expected deaths : 184s. Actual deaths ; 1750. The following is a statement for the period of 25 jears since these returns were first issued : -Temperance section —Expected deaths : 4856. Actual deaths : 3423. general section— Expected deaths: 7277. Actual deaths : 7034. The United States revenue from the liquor traffic averages 8s o|d per head of the population. In Maine it is less than 2d per head. Burgeon*major J. B, Hamilton says : — "The best change Sir Hugh Rose ever effected for the British soldier in India was the alteration of the rum ration when it was redaced from twc to one Mot' per day; and that commanderiu«chief who completes the work and Itopfl the issue of rum in canteens will do more for the morale of the European force, and cause a greater diminution of crime than by any other measure that has hitherto been proposed'" . Rev George Wilson, of Edinburgh, lays the commission of the Christian Church is to make saints, and it can hare nothing to do with a trade that makes drunkards. Last year 1356 people died of delirium tremens in England. In the same year 24 people died of hydrophobia, and, otring to this, thousands of dogs were killed and all kept alive had to wear a muzzle.