It is easy to see how drink is telling all the time against our doctors, our nurses, and our hospitals everywhere. Let us call a few witnesses.
Somebody gave a glass of neat whisky to two wounded men at a garden party in Tottenham. Both were drunk when the brake came to take them home, and one died on the way.
Facts in “Sheffield Telegraph,” September 3, 1915
Three wounded soldiers at Oxford were overcome by four bottles of rum smuggled into the hospital by visitors, and one of the men died.
Records of Oxford Coroner, January 1916
A wounded soldier asked for two hours’ leave, came back in four hours drunk with whisky, and died after a terrible night in the hospital.
Facts in “Daily Mail”
Two limbless soldiers were found helplessly drunk on the pavement at Brighton. A publican was fined £20.
Facts in “Daily Chronicle,” November 25, 1916
A wounded soldier, mentioned in despatches, was charged with causing the death of a soldier with whom he had been drinking. Reeling under a heavy blow, the injured man was helped to bed, but when the bugle sounded in the morning he was dead.