Parent and Child.
"What dEfferen3e does it make to a child whether its mother*-has been a teetotalletor a diinker?" was a question asked 1 by Mr Pearce Gould at a recent meeting in Queen's Hall, London, and he gave tKe following atswer;—"Much, every way. It has been shown clearly tha.t the childxen of tJioso who drink, as compared with the children of those "who do; not drink, are fewer in number. Fewer come to maturity. Many are stunted and puny, and quickly join, what we call the 'great majority.' Others oome into the world with, an inherited taint and with inherited disposition to disease. Five times as many children of drunken parents die in infancy and in early childhood as the children of those who do not drink. Five times_ as many dullards and dunces are found in our schools born of drunken mothers and fathers as aro born of sober parents. In London alone 600 infants every year are. crushed to death by mothers in drunken sleep. The mortality in the case of epidemics among 1 whose who do not drink is 9 per cent.; it is 91 per cent, among those who do drink."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 76
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196Parent and Child. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 76
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