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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2751, 1 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

HOW HABITUAL DRUNKARDS ARE DEALT WITH IN SWEDEN.

It is not generally known, says the Loudon correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, that a habitual drunkard iu Norway and Sweden renders himself liable to imprisonment for his love of strong drink, and that during his incarceration he is required to submit to a plan of treatment for the cure of his failing which is said to produce marvellous results. This plan consists iu making the delinquent subsist entirely on bread and wine. The br«»ad is steeped in a bowl of wine for an hour or more before the meal is served. The first day the habitual taper takes his food in this shape without repuguunce ; the second day he finds it less agreeable to his palate ; finally he positively loathes the •sight of it. Experience shows that a period of from eight to ten days of this icvimc is generally more than sufficient to make a man evince t'le greatest aversion from anything in the shape of vviue, and many.men after their incarceration become total abstainers. This system would be a loot; time in curing some local drunkards.