DRINKING AMONGST WOMEN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 13

DRINKING AMONGST WOMEN.

The late Dr. Norman Kerr was very strong in his conviction that drinking among women of all classes was increasing. He said: — "At the present day a great many children are barn with an alcoholic constitution, solely owing to the drinking propensities of their mothers. This appears to me the most perilous phase of the whole practice of drink, for here wo have alcoholic or other defective systems implanted be.iato birth. One child of drunken parmay turn out an inveterate drunkard, another a lunatic, another an idiot cfrom birth, another hysterical, another s»= epileptic, ana so on, and so on, ad naaecam. _ In some instances, as in gout, the inebriate inheritance, after skipping a generation, _ may attack the grand- 1 children. It is all very fearful to contemplate. _ Our whole present system -is the breeding and training of a criminal population. If by any miracle England was made -sober the average valuo of life of the people would be increased one- third. — Sir. B. W. Richardson. Tho association of indulgence in the use of intoxicating liquors with the intercourses of social life forms a strong inducement to the formation of intemperate habits. — Dr. Grindrod. If you do not seen clearly that physiologically the use of alcoholic liquors is a mistake, your total abstinence and self-sacrifice for somebody else's benefit are not worfh a rush. — Dr. J. Edmonds. I believe tho reason port wine and other alcoholic stimulants are so frequently prescribed by medical men is becauso they know tho patient has a preference for that class of stimulant. — Dr. Scafcliff. ' Nothing in tho a oak of quackery can -be more truly empirical- than tho mode •in which fermented liquors are directed' «or permrEfced to be taken by a largo proijpcrtion of medical pracfewnaes-. — The Hate Dr. W. B. Carpenter. Tbo terrible mortality from the usoi .of ilcohol draws behind it an almost, incalculable amount of seedincss, sick--ill-health, and incapacity for work . ißhat never cuiminatea.m actuaLalcnholic.!