The Edge of Hope: Social Policy and Chronic Alcoholism 1870–1900

Abstract

“We can see that the true Prevention of Drunkenness is not a mere stricturing of taps; that society, besides having to abolish those loathsome surroundings of life which now sometimes revolt sober men almost into envy of the drunkard, has to develop the reasonable minds to which drunkenness shall have neither charm nor excuse…” Sir John Simon, English Sanitary Institutions, London, 1890, page 479.