TREATMENT OF DRUNKARDS.
MELBOURNE, August 18.
The report of the Commission on the treatment of habitual drunkards recommends the establishment of a retreat at -French Island, the persons committed there to be compelled to •work, and when released to be given an allowance proportionate to the value of the work done; that criminal drunkards be kept in country ff aols separate from other prisoners; that the law be made more stringent against supplying drunken persons and children with liquor; that a hosPttal ward be set aside for the treatSent of inebriates and other persons found in the streets insensible.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 19 August 1899, Page 5
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