PAKATOA HOME.
Nobody can dispute the good work achieved by the Salvation Army at its Inebriates' Home at Pakatoa Island. It is stated that 30 per cent. I of the drunkards committed to that home have been permanently rearmed. What most people would like to know rs why the State should dedicate to a religious body a work which* should be undertaken by itself. Med-, ical scientists, as well as criminologists, are agreed that the dipsomaniac is a subject for special curative treatment. This must be conducted, howfever, on approved lines. Whether the Salvation Army is possessed of the medical skill requisite for the successful treatment of those suffering from alcohol poisoning is open to very grave doubt. The opinion is pretty generally entertained that the methods at present employed are not attended with that, success which one would expect under a more scientific form of treatmen. Wihout disparagement to the. Army, which has undertaken a very noble and humane task/ it is only right to insist that the State should accept its full responsibility for the care and treatment of those who are not regarded as fit subjects to be at large.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 23 August 1910, Page 4
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193PAKATOA HOME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10074, 23 August 1910, Page 4
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