WOMEN AND DRINK.
Dr. Clouston, in .his annual report on :the work of'.the Royal-Edinburgh Asylum, makes reference to alcoholic excess-as-a cause of insanity, . and says vthat. women appear on %'i the list in-> this'connection as often as-men. i Looking back over ten years, the idea was : y strengthened' that.ithe wornep. of the work- ■; , i ing-classes .' had: taken more to excess in ~'.a driiik ; of recent;.years than before. 'If this l ."«i Topresonted ,a general ; social fact: it. was of ; ■ had import'fw the future of the population. l ■-' -t P r - Gloiiston that, if certain persons j} in. our population , were specially '.predisposed to take drink,to excess,.and to.be upset-'in v . - their brains by: that means, surely that is a special argument.for-special care iii the use .... f of alcohol in 'the 'cast .of such :predisposed
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 3
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134WOMEN AND DRINK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 3
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