Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

Date:
[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    following: He was called to see a married lady, aged twenty- six, and had to fulfil the melancholy duty of informing her that she had not many hours to live, and was dying poisoned by her own hand. He had great difficulty in getting her to realise the dreadful truth, and he trusted such a painful task would never be imposed on him again. Next day he was summoned to a married lady, aged twenty-four, whose young daughter of five years was terribly alarmed at the dangerous illness of her mother. The latter was simply drunk. A third case was that of a maiden lady of independent fortune, aged forty-two, who was said to he lying on her face, dead, on the floor of her room. Dr. Kerr found her dead drunk. The wife of a stonemason, aged forty-one, thought she was dying, and had bade good-bye to all her friends. She was under the influence of liquor, and is alive yet. The wife of a labourer, aged forty-two, was so drunk that she was locked up for riotous conduct in the street. Her youngest child had been dangerously ill for a week, and would have died through her mother’s neglect but for the watchful care of a nurse from the Metropolitan Nursing Institute. The wife of a house painter had been over two hundred times in prison for drunkenness. The neighbours said of her that, when at liberty, happening to pass the prison within whose walls she had spent so large a part of her existence, she was heard involuntarily to warble the plaintiff air of 1 Home, sweet home.’ A skilled high-class female was engaged to take charge of a wealthy dipsomaniac female patient. One night, shortly after she entered on her duties, Dr. Kerr was sent for suddenly, as she was said to he dangerously ill. He found her drunk. A married lady, of excellent position, with a large grown-up family, had become so inveterate a sot that she fancied herself in immediate peril of a criminal assault, and kept a private detective to protect her against such
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