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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10654, 15 May 1895, Page 6

Oao titled Lady in London, with a view to ascertaining what organ-grinders made, hired an organ, disguised herself, andsang in Russell Square two hours, during which time she collected threepence. M. Legrain, in a little volume “ DegendrfscciEce Sociaia et Alooolieme,” gives a resume of 215 medical observations of the ilr.Mt generation of drunkards’ families, and of 98 observations of the second generation. The first showed 518 individuals, all more or less degenerate; the second ehowed 294 individuals mentally afflicted, or epileptic, or suffering physically, usually from tuberculosis, and the moral sense has almost entire!y disappeared. The third generation in still worse, but, happily, lean numerous. In it we find seventeen individuals, all lacking in aomu way, feeble, imbeciles, or idiots, il. Legrain wants to show that alcoholism is a social as well as sir individual malady. ; ; : gPOTG-JBLOSSOH 1-TEA#