UNITED NATIONS AND ALCOHOL
The World Health Organisation of the United Nations has issued a report on Alcoholism. The report opens with a brief survey of present physiological is a poison to the nervous system, the double solubility of alcohol in water and fat enables it to invade the nerve cell. The Committee recommends prohibition of sale to minors, on credit, or in lieu of service, compulsory Temperance teaching in schools, prohibition during service, and twenty hours before, by transport workers in all fields—air. sea and land—prohibition of sale within 390 ft. of churches, schools and law courts, prohibition of sale on election days and evening before, increased taxation of drink in order to restrict sale. The Committee attaches particular importance to education. It says: “The World Health Organisation should take further steps to increase the time devoted to the teaching of pathology of alcohol in the medical faculties of the various countries ... It is deemed desirable that the World Health Organisation sponsor medical congresses, post-graduate courses, etc., and to tacilitate as tar as possible the holding of public conferences on anti-alcoholism.” —lnternational Record.
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 July 1951, Page 1
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