Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham.

  • Lukis, C. P. (Charles Pardey), 1857-1917.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IT9 himself deprived of this dnnk. We are bound to recognize that beer or spirits are often useful n disease and sometimes desirable in health, but in health neither beer nor spirits are a neces- sUy and the majority of persons are better without ?hem To men, tired and fagged out after a long rnarch, a moderate issue of beer or spirits is not ^nly an advantage, but almost a necessity These considerations should influence our attitude in Jecrard to these issues in the service. Where men arS known habitually to abuse the consump- tion of these liquors they should be encouraged and helped to become total abstainers, but where such is not the case it is unwise to forbid the con- sumption of alcoholic drinks altogether, or to coerce men towards total abstinence. The only rules which should be laid down in regard to this matter are (i) beer or spirits should not be drunk during working hours ; (2) beer or spirits should only be drunk after the day's work is over, that is on the completion of the march and after arrival in camp or bivouac ; (3) the issue of beer or spirits at this time should be strictly limited to either two pints of beer or one and a half fluid ounces of one of the ordinary spirits ; (4) the alcoholic drink issued must not be taken fasting, but with the evening meal. If issued on these lines, there is much to suggest that, for those accustomed to drink one or other of these beverages, an allowance daily of either beer or spirits may be productive of more good than harm. In Canada the men who are lumberers and who live in camps far away from called civilization are strongly opposed to our Mili- tary doctrine. During the whole winter they fell the trees, and these are dragged along the snow to the river, where they are made up into rafts. These men will not have any alcohol near them in the winter. On one occasion a man conveyed a cask of whisky into one of their camps, and the first