Lecture on psychiatric institutions, the Austrian law of Curatel and separate asylums for drunkenness / by Herr Director Schlangenhausen.

  • Schlangenhausen.
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[1896?]
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Credit: Lecture on psychiatric institutions, the Austrian law of Curatel and separate asylums for drunkenness / by Herr Director Schlangenhausen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ance associations formed, either from religious or from other motives, as, for instance, in America, the order of the Good Templars, which has begun to have a firm footing in England, Switzerland and Germany; and, above all, doctors, and especially educated persons, should show a good example, should practise abstinence as regards alco¬ hol—and, if possible, be total abstainers. On August 20-22 last an association of abstaining doctors was formed at the International Congress at Basel. May this association, with the largest possible number of members, spread itself over the entire civilised world ! 2. A further measure for the purpose of checking drunkenness and of strengthening the drunkard’s power of resistance against alcohol, consists in the construc¬ tion of asylums for drunkards. In the construction of such asylums, the United States and the British colonies have notoriously taken the lead ; and Switzerland, Sweden and Norway have followed the example of the above- mentioned countries. In 1870, Dr. Donald Dalrymple introduced into Parliament a bill to amend the laws of lunacy, and to provide for the management of habitual drunkards ; but it was not until 1879 that the Inebriates Act, promoted by Lord Shaftesbury and Dr. Cameron, came into force for ten years, and was continued in 1888. I should also mention en passant that there were in the year 1892 in England, seven licensed private asylums for drunkards, containing altogether 56 men and 51 women, in which habitual drunkards could be received on their own application. In Australia a model legislation exists for the prevention of drunkenness ; and there the reception of patients is both voluntary and com¬ pulsory. Dr. Norman Kerr has reviewed the legislation for drunkards, and the system of asylums in the English colonies. In Austria, as well as in Germany and France, the construction of asylums for drunkards is contemplated ; and last year in Austria a bill for this purpose was intro¬ duced into Parliament. Founded principally on the basis
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