MOTORISTS AND DRINK
DOCTOR’S CRAVE WARNING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! LONDON, July 21. The harmfulness of drink upon motor drivers was the text of a British Medical Association session at Edinburgh. Doctor Godfrey-Arter said that the drunken motorist was only one degree less capable than the drunken engine driver. Disaster was sure to follow. The delicate nerve balance, giving poise, judgment, and quickness of decision, was the first power to be come disordered us the result of alcohol. A Gincinatti delegate, Dr Er.’ir Rogen. describen the American plan for dealing with the evil. Then under the suspect blows up a football, and his breath, when released into a chemical mixture, discloses the extent of his intoxication. In some known cases the breath had changed the fluid from a reddish brown to a bluish green. The Scottish Chief Justice Russell, said that, a drunken motorist was worse than a drunken man with a revolver. The hitter would go off in only one direction, but there was no knowing what a drunken motorist would do in a crowded street. He regretted that the law did not allow imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1927, Page 12
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