A brief history of ancient and modern tee-totalism / with a short account of drunkenness, and the various means used for its suppression.

  • Dearden, Joseph.
Date:
[1840]
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Credit: A brief history of ancient and modern tee-totalism / with a short account of drunkenness, and the various means used for its suppression. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    of Mammon, says fliat above one hundred and fifty thousand are habitual gin drinkers, and that three millions' worth of spirituous liquors are con- sumed annually. Mr. Wakley, coroner fur Middlesex, says, I have reason to believe that from 10,000 to 15,000 persons die in the Metro- polls annually, from the effects of gin d,inking, on whom no inquests are held ; and it canes me to have, annually. 1000 more inquests than 1 otherwise should hold. From the report on drunkenness, page 360, it appears that out of 4938 persons committed to Salfoid gaol in one year, 2354 were imprisoned for offences arising from intemperance. Tll3 sum computed to be spsnt in drink, in the town of Birmingham, is suSffiient to find eight quartern loaves a week during the year, for more thin -22,000 families. In Liverpool, there are above 1-300 licensed public houses; aid also about 800 beer shops, making a total of 2100 houses, lic^nssd fjr tli.' r>u.-p>se4 of d3itroying paople's health ; t3 maintain which, it is calculated £600,000 is required. Of 495 patients, admitted into the Liverpool lunaiic asylum within four years, 257 tost their reason by intemperance. In Bradford there are 159 gin ships and public houses, about 170 beer shops, and 4 brewciies; and it is calculated that there are £20£0 spent weekly at those p'aces; loss of time, £4S7 10s., and for various losses, consequent upon drinking, £250; total, £2,767 10s. Deduct for the necessary expences of travellers, tradesmen, and harmless sociality, £500, making the net weekly loss to the town of Bradford, £2,267 10s., or £323 18s. 6d. per day; yearly, £117,910, and in 8 years and a half, to upwards of on; million pounds stealing! leaving out of the calculation t'le vast amount of poverty, misery, wretchedness, disease, and death, which it produces. The right honourable the recorder of the city of Dublin, in an address to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, says that there are, on an average, about two thousand convictions fur drunkenness alone per mouth in Dublin ; and he also states that a vast proportion of the crime of that city is to be traced to intoxication, and its long train of kindred vices. And as one proof of the correctness of this statement, it may be mentioned, that in the year 1818, twenty two persons who were condemned to death in that city, declared that drunkenness had been among the chief causes of their ruin. Mr. Marshall, an army physician, says he recollected seven men in one regiment who received among them 4200 lashes, arisin from intemperance. He also states that lie has seen at cne time thirty two men punished in a regiment hospital, through the immoderate use of spirits. An officer in the army states that in the year 1801, cfct of 1000 of his regi- ment, 450 were buriedin four months, almost entirely through drinking rum. Captain Brenton and Captain Purnell give us to understand that the