BEER FOR INFANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 305, 30 December 1907, Page 4

BEER FOR INFANTS.

STATISTICS OF JJIiIXKIXC; A.UOXG WO.UIiX. Accc.uu.; in a rotiir l l issm.-il by tin. 'lonic Oiiia- on iliu subject of the t're;uciili:er el public-houses hy women ami ■liililriM, women and 10,740 child itu wci'i necii tu ejiter twenty-three London [v.lilic houses <lll which uliscrvtintuni also contains reports lro;n I hie! eoii-hiblcs on the subject. Tiie L'hiei Coii.-lable of Jiirmingliam says: "i have seen women giving infants 11 portion of their l>ccr to drink, and I am told that they do this as it makes the ihihlren sleepy and quiet. "lu the lower quarters of I'lirniuigham women resort to the public houses shortly after ten o'clock in the morning in I I numbers, when tliev are supposed t'> be doing their shopping, and on these oca-ion, tln-y take the younger childn-i I'lid illi ;iin-. Tin- ..une tiling occurs late :U nighl. especially on Saturdav ni'dit.' Sir I-:. 1:. Henry. Chief Cominissh.ner 'ii the .Met I'opii!it;i 11 Police. says:—■ "A ]>raetie(- which has been' noticed, and which can only have a prejudicial cii'e:; 1,11 the alter lives of the children, i- thai of allowing or inducing them to >.p l !n- drink Mippb'ed to their parent*. "A- ribalds the bad language which they may hear, it is generally onlv the youiige-l children who are taken into tin public limisi-, —too young to understand what they hear. When they are oi.l enough to run about I hey are gencrallv left to play in the streets witli other children."