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THE NEW DEFINITION DOCTOR’S SARCASTIC COMMENT. LONDON, Feb. 18. “If I were called to the station to see whether a man was drunk I would ask him to read the B.M.A. Committee’s definition,” said a prominent divisional surgeon. He added: “If he could read it h« certainly would not be drunk. If I were asked for h. comprehensive definition of drunkenness I would say it is when he makes himself a general nuisance. A motorist is chiefly cohcerned in this business because the penalties in England are invariably three months’ gaol (and the license suspended for a year. It seems practically impossible to generalise-
“A man once drove me over a most difficult road in war time with perfect skill. The following morning he know so little of what had happened t.hpt he went to the garage in his pyjamas to see if the car was there.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 2
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148DRUNKENNESS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 2
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