The struggle between the State and the drunkard : a forgotten aspect of the drink question [read, Tuesday, February 23rd, 1897] / by E.D. Daly.

  • Daly, E. D.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The struggle between the State and the drunkard : a forgotten aspect of the drink question [read, Tuesday, February 23rd, 1897] / by E.D. Daly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 Every penalty for permitting drunkenness or for selling intoxi¬ cating liquor to drunken persons, shall be endorsed upon the licence. XIY. Exclusion of Tipsy Persons. The powers and penalties of Section 18 of the Licensing Act, 1872, shall apply in case of anyone who in the opinion of a licensed person, or his manager, is under the influence of drink. XV Where a court of summary jurisdiction is given or as any reason to suspect that any person, who not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is notwithstanding by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor at times dangerous to him or herself or others, or at times incapable of managing him or herself, or his or her affairs, the court may remand the accused and require the opinion of the medical officer of the prison. If the medical officer reports that in his opinion the prisoner is a diseased inebriate, he or she shall be dealt with as by law may be now or hereafter arranged for such cases. N.B.—The Small Penalties Act above referred to gives power to dispense with .distress of goods, and award imprisonment in default of payment of sums ordered. PRINTED BY SEALY, BUYERS AND WALKER, MIDDLE ABBEY STREET, DUBLIN.