TEMERANCE ITEMS.
It was an unlucky il lustratipn .ÜBed by Mr Howard Crpßby)..at;.the.AgreUt Temperance SymposiumfNorYprk; in which all sortsof leniperance people bad their Bay. Dr.inghia high license theory,; wapte'di'to, know if a tiger V; were v lo6BO;'injtbe Btreets of New York;'would"it ; nbt;be tetter to confine ;it: to certain" tather than ]eavejt i to. / rpam,Bll:Over. the city ? -i ;!'Sboot'/him!"': : crieO prohibition ; voice ;frbm:'thei gallery. WhereattDr Crosby did no^;.easily ; cover from hia vißible>rabarraßameht, That voice from':'tbo'v;ga)lerjr that iß'gflßSf&'pre.valenoy all;6ver.-|h'6; world.— Sunday School Chronicle;, . Biaibop Keane, of the'EoraanjCathq: lio Churob, ia hiß 'Btatembntrecently qnotec'l by:." Tko Voiced' Catholio Church appeatß to/all ,'Oatho - lies t(i get oat of Beck ivlreputable.way of making a-liv.i ing "i-referriiig to ...tho businesc4doubtlcsa«hid ldecree of the Flenary;Council;bold at ■;. Baltimore in; 1885 ',, wc wiirn our.;faithfulfpeople. ; whq : :Bell intoxicating; liqubrsj;.tp:conßJder;aerir ously';by how dangers and occasions of^ ; :.eia!, their bußmess— although i'DoVunlawfufth Itself—is BnrroDndfid.;Wlfj ; tbeyi:carj, let them choose a'mbrehonbrablbway of making a living; but ifthoy'cannqt let; them Btudy by;allmeans-to re- . move from themßeWesi occasion of ain." •■''•■■'v£ ■. : 'The LaiiCet, of SepteroberVHlli;;ol laslyenr, flays:—" Habitual drunkenness n)[jHJjj» decreasing, but it is still a disease, a9;:pvory practmoner of any experiercpiCcpuld teU. True, ho. does not'H'tell^t would astonishtbe publiojf; medical men were to reveal all they:knew :ol tbisolass of case 3." '.SomotbingVbf what medical men could to'ljf Jthby Chose to do so was brought to light by the Collective Investigation Committee of the Britißb Medical Association, on the" Influence of Alcjhol on Mortality." The gentlemen. composing the committee tell ua that out of a total number of 4284 deaths of adult males, over 25 ■ years of age, which occurred among,their patients during the period of the investigation, it wan found that 677 wore deaths cf men vfho"TaMSS n "oawlewdrinkeis," Esßthe dea^ B ot " free drinkers,'! 608* those of men who bad been •'habitually tempeiste;" while 1528 only were deaths of men who were alcoholusors and "habitually temperate," leaving 587 as the deaths ol iaen who were teetotallers, and other! Tfhoße habits of life has not beer ajoertained, Sir E, H. Sioveking and Dr Pollocl B te both recognised authorities of thii question. The former, in his manua upon the subject, laid down the genera! r ule " that the habitual spirit drinkoi especially one who is found to taki alcohol drinkfl early in the day, ougbl to be declined altogether." Thelattei advided the rejection of a proposoi whose daily habit It was to taki Btimulants three or.four times in tbf twohe bofltffi aod wfoeea to «»ve anj
it place in lifo assurance to the dram y drinker, tho occasional drunkard, the is man who had violent outbreaks of s drunkenness at long intervals. Tho g soundnoßs of these opinions was ir founded on a wide experience, and on such statistics as Mr Nelson's, who 's showed that from 16 upwards the •o relativo mortality of intemperate perr, sons was moro than three times i, higher than the general community ; '0 Irom 21 to 80, more than five times; e from 30 lo 50, more than four times, a Tho returns for deaths really due to it alcohol were not satisfactory, us the '.. custom was rather to refer such deaths : (not altogether incorrectly) to tho '.: local disease immediately preceding ,:■ death.'.';
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4412, 6 May 1893, Page 3
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533TEMERANCE ITEMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4412, 6 May 1893, Page 3
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