Report of the Committee on Intemperance for the Convocation of the Province of York, presented and received.
- Church of England. Province of York. Convocation. Committee on Intemperance.
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Committee on Intemperance for the Convocation of the Province of York, presented and received. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![are fouuil to be very rare. In tlic large purishes of the North, there are not so many districts without i^laccs for the sale of drink, yet in those which do exist the same result of lessened di'unkeuness and crime is obtained. ThowUoof The granting of licences for the sale of intoxicating drhiks drink iu MuHic iiiiiis, in music halls, gardens, and other places of recreation for the pViiors'nfpeople, is producing an amount of demoralisation that really toi'^cit.'' cannot be exaggerated, especially among the rising generation. Your Committee select from many similar testimonies on this point a brief extract from one of thek returns :— Lftni'-uf.ibio Iu this i)arisli we have the well-known Gardens. onQood Here at Easter time, and especially on Good Friday, we have scenes of riot over which the Christian heart must weej). The rudest and roughest part of the factory poijulation and'othcrs from the manufacturing towns come to these gardens, and sjjond Good Friday iu dissipation and immorality. Our Sunday scholars are enticed away, and oftentimes the results are lamentable. Mistresses have informed me that thoy di-eaded Good Friday and the gardens here more than any' other temptations to which their servants are exposed. The lax en- Tliough pubhc opiuiou, recently more awakened to the the'^L^w* magnitude of the evil, has brought about a somewhat improved supervision on the part of magisterial and j)ohce authorities in various districts, yet the general laxity with which the law is enforced produces an immense amount of inebriety. Indeed, if the law as at present constituted were but strictly enforced, it would prevent a large amount of the diaiukenness which now prevails. Ti>e holding The holding of clubs iu Public-Houses is a fruitful source of ciubsTu' injury to the working classes. It frequently happens that the Public- p^^Ij Jj. unsuspected instrument in familiarising the working fruitful -^yitl^ ii^Q scenes and associations of the Public-House, until at source of i i • n i, n . tj. ■ i • i. iujurv to the length lie becomes an habitual attendant, it is a rule m most Work!'!' , „ . . ■ , , • 1 1 1. • oias«. s. aud of the bcncht societies to apportion to every meniher a ccrtam euthv't,.' amount of drinlc on each mefting night for the so-called good iu<«mi)ur. ]io^i>^e; and when it liajipens, as is frequently the case, that a large ])roportion of the members are absent, the hquor Iihs to be consumed by the few wlio may be present. Tlie rcsidt is, in many cases, iielpless intoxication ; and in some instances, k-; s of life from such exccBS. (See appendix.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404530_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
