Temperance Items

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 117, 19 October 1901, Page 1

Temperance Items

(Published by arrangement.) ALCOHOLISM AND TUBERCULOSIS. A well-known Wellington man, who takes no active part in Temperance wort, has written to Mr A. R. Atkinson a letter, from which wp are permitted to publish the following extract:— “ I should like to draw your attention to an address on the measures adopted by different nations for the prevention of consumption, b/ Prof. P. Bronardet, of Paris, It is given in the British Medical Journal for July 27th, 1901, page 195, paragraph on Alcoholism and Tuberculosis’ Alcoholism is the mosb potent fan'or in propaga'ing tuber-i culosis.” “ The a ■'•ongi st man who hn Once taken to drink is powerless against it. Where the annual consumption ot alcohol is 12’47 litres per head th<f tuberculosis rate is 30 to 40 per 10,000 ; where the consumption of a’cohol is 50 litres, the tuberculosis rite is more than 90 psr 10,000.” Jhis is somewhat new to me, a. d the whole paper is wall worth reading, as, indeed, is the whole debate. No doubt you can gob the B. M I G. at the Library. It has been an epoch-making congress, of more real importance than half a doe -n Boer wars. It will mean that, in England alone, during the next ten years the tuberonlo is mortality will be Iss by half a million than it was the last ten ye*rs. 1 think all members of the House should be interested m sanitary questions of this magnitude, for help must come from the State to get the best results.’*

WHAT DRINK 13 DOING FOR BRIT-

ISH SEAMEN,

It is reported that the Orient Steam* ship Company has decided to man its steamers with Lascars, a step which means that both rho British mail lines between England and Australia will carry non-British crews. In consequence (says the Daily Mail’s Sydney corrospon* dent), an organised labour movement has been started in all the Federal States for the insertion in the Commonwealth postal and Telegraphic Bill now. before Parliament of cond tions insisting that only whites shall be emp'oyed on subsidised nuil-boats. The Australian manager ot the Orient Line claims that the now departure is unavoidab’e, owing to British seamen being “ refractory» dinnken, and unreliable/’

PROHIBITION DOE** NOT PRO* HIBIT* What the Writer of “ All Round th» World on a Wheel” says, “ The towns we slipped through neat and dean ; the houses were of bungalow style, of wood, usually painted two shades of green, standiug under shady trees, oo rich, well cared for plot I of grass, and there were hammocks where the wife or the daughter lounged In the afternoon. Puny, ill-clad child, ren I never saw ; happiness and plenty, were the two woids stamped over lowa, It is a prohibition State, and the obtaining of beer is a difficulty ; the sale of cigarettes is under a ban; thelegislation has decided that oigaratte smoking is not good for the health.”

The writer of the above is not a total abstainer, and could have no interest in misleading people.