TREATMENT OF INEBRIATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7677, 9 April 1903, Page 2

TREATMENT OF INEBRIATES.

VICTORIAN RECRIMINATIONS.

United Press Asaocdation— By Bleotri* Telegraph— Copyright. / (Received April 9, 11.19 a.m.) ~~T MELBOURNE, April 9. The committee appointed by the Government to inquire into, certain alleged cures of drank drunkenness staites that it is unable, to affirm- that there is any specific for inebriety which is a certain cure, but it is able to say that there are/methods of treatment, whether by known or unrevealed medicines -combined with physical and moral conditions, which result in the restoration of a, large number of inebriates. The- committee made the fololwing recommendations:— That provision should be made for registration under Government supervision of all institution. f6r the treatment of inebriety; that a special place of confinement and treatment should be provided for criminal inebriates, where offences may be directly traced to inebriety and where the ground for detention is habitual drunkenness itself ; that a Government institution «nd«r a board of control should be established in some localityVsuitable for the isolation, classification and opportunity of employment, to which inebriates * should be sent voluntarily or compulsorily, and in which the different methods of treatment may be adopted. ."' ;