[66] The author says “inherent defect.” I have omitted the adjective, as it is obviously misused. Antecedent would have been the better word, surely.
[67] Italics mine.
[68] Italics mine. A thousand pounds for cure—which does not cure—and twopence for prevention is, of course, the rule with a half-educated nation always.
[69] She died in a lunatic asylum. I have not heard that society ever offered her a public apology for its brutality to her.
[70] See Times report, February 28, 1908.
[71] Report of the Inspector under the Inebriates Acts for the year 1906.
[72] This drinking by women, which means drinking by mothers present, expectant or possible, is rapidly increasing in Great Britain, though almost unknown in our Colonies. It is at the heart that Empires rot.
[73] Cd. 4438. Price 4½d. Volume of evidence Cd. 4439. Price 2s.
[74] A careful and detailed enquiry by the present writer, published in the Westminster Gazette (Nov. 21, 1908), Daily Chronicle, and Manchester Guardian, and hitherto unchallenged, showed that, on the most moderate reckoning, alcohol makes 124 widows and orphans in England and Wales every day, or more than 45,000 per annum.
[75] Diseases of Occupation, by Sir Thomas Oliver. (The New Library of Medicine, 1908.)