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July 12, 1909
The New Haven Union
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
A circular from Glasgow's Lord Provost warns of alcohol abuse's harmful effects on adults' health, productivity, and morality, and on children's physical and mental well-being, citing a parliamentary report on physical deterioration.
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ABUSE OF ALCOHOL.
We are in receipt of a circular from the Lord Provost, of Glasgow, Scotland, issued by and under the seal of the municipal corporation and signed by A. K. Chalmer, M. D., medical officer of health. It is entitled the "Abuse of Alcohol and Its Result." We do not know whether drinking conditions and their results in New Haven are worse than they are in Glasgow, or vice versa, but we do feel that this circular contains much that can have a universally truthful application. At any rate it can do no harm for everybody to read it. It is in substance as follows:
The committee on health urge the citizens to consider the following statements from the report recently submitted to Parliament, of the committee on physical deterioration:
EFFECT ON ADULTS.
1. The abuse of alcoholic stimulants is a most potent and deadly agent in producing physical deterioration.
2. Alcohol is not a food.
3. It is not a source of muscular vigor or dexterity, but the reverse.
4. It may produce temporary exhilaration, but depression soon follows.
5. Its continued use impairs the productive power of the skilled artisan.
6. Its continued use, whether in the form of beer, wine, or spirits, even though never to the extent of producing drunkenness, results in chronic poisoning.
7. It weakens the natural forces which resist disease.
8. It increases the risk of consumption.
9. It increases liability to disease, adds to its severity and retards recovery.
10. It perverts the moral nature, affects the judgment, and impairs the memory.
11. It deadens sensibility to miserable surroundings and destroys all desire for improvement.
12. It is increasing the proportion of men and women who are being confined in lunatic asylums.
13. It shortens life. The death-rate of abstainers is little more than half that of the whole male population living between the ages of 25 and 65.
EFFECT OF PARENTAL INTEMPERANCE ON THE CHILDREN.
14. Intemperance in parents brings suffering on their children,
15. It produces physical and sometimes mental weakness in them.
16. If they escape death in infancy, permanent disablement may still result from paralysis, epilepsy, or idiocy.
17. The death-rate among infants of inebriate mothers is two and one-half times greater than among the children of sober mothers.
18. The report states that drinking habits are increasing among women of the working classes.
We are in receipt of a circular from the Lord Provost, of Glasgow, Scotland, issued by and under the seal of the municipal corporation and signed by A. K. Chalmer, M. D., medical officer of health. It is entitled the "Abuse of Alcohol and Its Result." We do not know whether drinking conditions and their results in New Haven are worse than they are in Glasgow, or vice versa, but we do feel that this circular contains much that can have a universally truthful application. At any rate it can do no harm for everybody to read it. It is in substance as follows:
The committee on health urge the citizens to consider the following statements from the report recently submitted to Parliament, of the committee on physical deterioration:
EFFECT ON ADULTS.
1. The abuse of alcoholic stimulants is a most potent and deadly agent in producing physical deterioration.
2. Alcohol is not a food.
3. It is not a source of muscular vigor or dexterity, but the reverse.
4. It may produce temporary exhilaration, but depression soon follows.
5. Its continued use impairs the productive power of the skilled artisan.
6. Its continued use, whether in the form of beer, wine, or spirits, even though never to the extent of producing drunkenness, results in chronic poisoning.
7. It weakens the natural forces which resist disease.
8. It increases the risk of consumption.
9. It increases liability to disease, adds to its severity and retards recovery.
10. It perverts the moral nature, affects the judgment, and impairs the memory.
11. It deadens sensibility to miserable surroundings and destroys all desire for improvement.
12. It is increasing the proportion of men and women who are being confined in lunatic asylums.
13. It shortens life. The death-rate of abstainers is little more than half that of the whole male population living between the ages of 25 and 65.
EFFECT OF PARENTAL INTEMPERANCE ON THE CHILDREN.
14. Intemperance in parents brings suffering on their children,
15. It produces physical and sometimes mental weakness in them.
16. If they escape death in infancy, permanent disablement may still result from paralysis, epilepsy, or idiocy.
17. The death-rate among infants of inebriate mothers is two and one-half times greater than among the children of sober mothers.
18. The report states that drinking habits are increasing among women of the working classes.
What sub-type of article is it?
Medical Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
Alcohol Abuse
Physical Deterioration
Health Effects
Intemperance
Parental Drinking
Infant Mortality
What entities or persons were involved?
Lord Provost Of Glasgow
A. K. Chalmer, M. D.
Where did it happen?
Glasgow, Scotland
Story Details
Key Persons
Lord Provost Of Glasgow
A. K. Chalmer, M. D.
Location
Glasgow, Scotland
Story Details
Circular summarizing parliamentary report on alcohol's detrimental effects: not a food, causes deterioration, chronic poisoning, disease susceptibility, moral perversion, shortened life in adults; suffering, weakness, higher infant mortality in children of intemperate parents.