It is rather unpleasant to have to carry a medical certificate to prevent being locked up for drunkenness. This is what a Birmingham man is compelled to do. He is a sufferer from fits, and whenever he falls down in the streets from the effect of one of these seizures, the police, he suggests, run him in for being drunk, and he was compelled to carry a certificate from a well-known physician to save himself from being locked up in the cells.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XIV, 8 April 1899, Page 446
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82Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XIV, 8 April 1899, Page 446
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