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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 7

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i | WHEN A MAN IS DRUNK.

.nw.-ivffl 1 T . rri i LONDON. February IT. Thr question. "when i. a man drunk?" h»» lieer setiled definitely in England after vears of and investigation. A committee of the 8.M.A.. consisting of 2s doctors, police surgeons, scientists and magistrates, says: "A man it drunk when lie is so much under the influence of Jeohol as to have lost control of his faculties to an extent to render him unable to execute safely the occupation on which he Is engaged at a material time." The report enumerates twenty diseases which may be responsible for symptoms resembling intoxication. Little importance attache', to a single test «och as walking along a straight line. A correct conclusion tnay be arrived at from the smell of alcohol and a combination of the following symptoms: a drj. furred tougue or excessive salivation, irregularity of behaviour such as insolence or loquacity, disorder of dress, a watering and redness of the whites of the eyes. loss of memory, thickness of speech, impaired i articulatioj or tremor« and error* o* I co-ordination and orieni at ion. j That is when a man i? drunk.