Facts in “Daily News,” August 11, 1915
The medical officer in charge of the Mental Block of a large military hospital said to the Colonel: “I have the worst job of all, and it is through Drink, Drink, Drink! Men recover fairly soon from shell shock, but officers, especially the younger ones, who habitually take wines and spirits, are subject to relapses every few days. It is awful!”
Facts in “National Temperance Quarterly,” May 1917
Of the thirty war hospitals in Hertfordshire, with 8000 men passing through them in the first thirty months of the war, there is not one that has not had trouble with drink.
Facts known to the Author
A doctor from a Canadian hospital said a large percentage of their troops had had to be sent back to Canada rendered permanently insane through the action of alcohol.
Facts in “Daily News,” October 31, 1916
One terrible truth remains to be told of the crime of drink against the Red Cross. The most blessed thing in all the world today is alcohol, for it makes chloroform and ether, which soothe the pain of men. We cannot get enough of either of these consoling drugs, yet we go on wasting precious food to make more alcohol to add to the sum of misery and pain.
Will some Member of Parliament please ask
whether the bread ration applies equally to all; or if it may be exceeded if the excess is drunk instead of being eaten?