Habitual Drunkards.
Regarding the manner of dealing with habitual druukarda, the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums says :—“ There have been eight committals to lunatic asylums under the clauses of the Act relating to habit aal drunkards. Great difficulty occurs in complying with the requirements of the statute—that these persons should be placed in a building, or part of a building, not occupied by lunatics. In (act, no special accommodation exists for them in any of the public asylums. If proper accommodation does not exist iu an asylum, the committal of habitual drunkards to that establishment, being certainly illegal, should be prohibited,’’ There is no reason why the necessary accommodation for those inebriates should fail to be provided in connection with all the principal lunatic asylums. A cheap separate building of three or four rooms could be erected in the vicinity of each asylum at very slight outlay for the safe keeping of the inebriates. There is no practical difficulty whatever in the matter.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1836, 26 May 1886, Page 3
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162Habitual Drunkards. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1836, 26 May 1886, Page 3
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