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THE TREATMENT OP INEBRIATES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, August 18. (Received August 19, at- 0.52 a.m.)

The report of the commission on tho treatment of habitual drunkards recommends the establishment of a- retreat at French Island, persons committed there to be compelled to work, and when released given an allowance proportional' to the value of the work done. They recommend that criminal drunkards bo kept in country gaols, separate from other prisoners : that the law be made more stringent against supplying drunken persons and children with liquor ; that a hospital ward be sot aside for the treatment of inebriates and other persons found in the streets insen-

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11506, 19 August 1899, Page 5

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THE TREATMENT OP INEBRIATES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11506, 19 August 1899, Page 5

THE TREATMENT OP INEBRIATES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11506, 19 August 1899, Page 5