Brief notes for temperance teachers / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896.

Date:: [1883?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Brief notes for temperance teachers / by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PART II. PAUPERISM IN RELATION TO ALCOHOL. It is admitted on all bands that one of the greatest causes of the poverty of the country is due to indulgence in Alcohol. Statistical facts on this subject are less reliable than would be expected, owing, not to deficiency of facts, for there is abundance of them, but to the difficulty of separating them from various surrounding circumstances with which they are often intimately connected. Thus the circumstance that a man or woman is brought to seek parish relief is often sufficient, for pity’s sake alone, to prevent the fact of Alcohol being recorded as the cause. How far the influence of intemperance tells upon labour was exceedingly well expressed in the lleport of a Parlia- mentary Committee of 1834. The reporters made the following note:— “ The loss of productive labour in every department of