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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 5

" Dr. Serieux (a great French savant) made researches and l found that 78 - per cent, of relapsed cases of insanity «nteririg the .public : a.sylums were drinkers, and, of violent maniacs 88 per cent. Were drinkers' ; and Dr.\ Qoustoii, m his report on one of the asylums m England, says that alcoholic insanity is steadily going up; it has.' •doubled m five' years. He goes on. to say : "It ig certain that for every ; man., m /who™ excessive drink- ( ing tcauses absolute insanity , r ther^ are twenty m whom it injures 1 the brain, t blunts the .moral sense and lessens the | ■capacity : for work. It is most sad 1 and discouraging that this preventiblc canpe of the most terrible. of ail human diseases should thus «6htinti6 to increase. It is a I veritable. plague spot m our social life."*