ALCOHOL AND WORK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8241, 13 June 1905, Page 4

ALCOHOL AND WORK.

ITS VSE DENOL'XCED XV SIR

FREDERICK TREVES.

EFFECTS OF DRINK.

The icmpcruiu'c cause has a blronjj advocate 111 Sir Frederick Trevcs, who, in an address at a Church of England Tempo!iincc Society's meeting held at Church House, Westminster, declared that alcohol was distinctly it poison. Hie use of which should be as strictly limited as that of any other kind of poison.

It was further an insidious poison, Ik* said, producing elteets which seemed lv have only one. antidote — alcohol again.

It was true, unfortunately, that alcohol, hud a stimulating effect, but it lasted only for a moment, and after it had passed away the capacity for work fell enormously. Itbrought up the reserve forces of the body and threw them into action, with the result that when they were used up therewas nothing to fall back upon, so that it, dispersed rather than conserved bodiljencrgy. On the march to' Ladysmith. the soldiers who were drinkers dropped out as. if they were labelled.

Alcohol was inconsistent with fine wo/k and absolutely inconsistent with surgical work, or any other work which required quick, keen and alert judgment.

Mr William Jonson-Hicks, who also spoke, slated that the nation's rmnual drink would permit of seventy sovereigns being placed on each letter in the Bible, leaving plenty of money over for the commas and semicolons: