[Debate on drunkenness and alcohol licensing in Liverpool.].

Date:
[1876?]
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Credit: [Debate on drunkenness and alcohol licensing in Liverpool.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHAT LIVERPOOL MAGISTRATES HAVE SAIT) ABOUT PUBLIC-HOUSES and the PUBLICANS. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, Esq.:- “ We should not at this moment have been put to the necessity of erecting a new Gaol, if it were not for the existence of the Licensed Public-houses and Beer-houses; I believe they are the source of all the mischief. —1st Report on Public-houses, page SI, F. A CLINT, Esq. (Ex-Chairman Watch Committee): — “ There were about 20.000 persons convicted of Drunkenness in Liverpool in the course of the year, the greater portion of them had obtained drink and become drunk in Public-houses, and he had no hesitation in saying that in the great majority of cases the Publicans knowingly permitted them to get drunk.”— Public Meeting of. Lav Association Rooms. i J. B. ASPINALL, Esq. (Recorder of Liverpool) : — I “If there were 9 5 such houses (the resort of bad characters) in Liverpool, all he could say was that IF the authorities did their duty now they had the power in their hands, it was not necessary that there should be such houses any more, because if they were known to the Police, the Police ought to proceed against them.”—Charge 1o //«• Grand'Jnry. J. J. STITT, Esq.:- “ Probably the most serious defect in the present Law is the ridiculously imperfect machinery for detecting offenders, and every miserable drunkard who reels through our streets testifies to the almost complete impunity with which the Licenses are broken, drink being supplied to intoxicated victims almost with¬ out supervision. What is wanted— and what a late Government Bill contemplated—is the appointment of a special staff of Public- house Inspectors, who would speedily bring to justice and the forfeiture of their Licenses, multitudes of Law-breakers of the very worst type, of drunkard-makers who now escape,’-—Letter to Public Pup res.