The necessity for some legalised arrangements for the treatment of dipsomania or the drinking insanity / by Alexander Peddie.

  • Peddie, Alexander, 1810-1907
Date:
1858
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Credit: The necessity for some legalised arrangements for the treatment of dipsomania or the drinking insanity / by Alexander Peddie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The above scheme, I am convinced, could be worked out so as to cost the country very little annually. The establishments proposed might be made almost entirely self-supporting. Many of the fees, too, of procedure would be paid by private persons or by Parochial Boards; and the remainder, probably not many hundred pounds, would be a small outlay indeed for the good likely to be obtained. To save even a few dipsomaniacs or their families or connections from ruin would be no small benefit; and there is no doubt that the length of time during which control would be continued would be highly beneficial, arising both from the improvement of the physical condi¬ tion, and the moral influence produced on the mind. By this, too, the country would profit not a little ; for, not to speak of the burden which the offspring of such unfortunates necessarily, in many ways, entail on society, by such reformatory or conservative measures many would be kept from passing the remainder of their days in poor-houses, hospitals, and asylums. Doubtless, many also would be kept out of prison ; and thus, by the lessening of crime, which is too well known to spring so wildly and abundantly out of un¬ restrained systematic drunkenness, a very great saving to the country would be effected, not only in the maintenance, but in the prosecution of criminals. M L itIIAY A\l) GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
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