A temperance manual : being the essay which was awarded the prize of Rs.500 offered by General Sir G.S. Wehite ... / by H. McBain.

  • McBain, Hugh
Date:
[1899?]
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Credit: A temperance manual : being the essay which was awarded the prize of Rs.500 offered by General Sir G.S. Wehite ... / by H. McBain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER L Introduction, It has been well said . that, a people's health is a nation's wealth. If this holds true of the ordinary population, it may be said to apply, in a special sense^ to the military element of that population. The health of our Army in India has been much before the pub- lic mind recently, and the subject is one of great and far reaching importance. Few will deny that the greatest enemies of the British soldier in India, are intemperance and impurity. We heai* a great deal re- garding the trying climate of the country, and with a certain amount of reason, as many parts of India are far from congenial to Europeans. Ordinary care and re- straint would, however, accomplish much, as many a man finds an early grave in India, or returns to England a shattered wreck, simply as the result of irregular and in- temperate living. Scores of men on the other hand, leave for England at the expiration of their engagement, sound in wind and limb, and not a whit the worse for their sojourn abroad. The latter class has exercised care and discretion, and reaps the reward,.
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