Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-31
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enness to be-a culpable failure on
the part of an ordinary individual to
conduct himself and control his desires
In accordance with the ethical stand
ara OF his times. But whatever its
origin. and whatever its relationships,
drur kenness is on the way to mental
death. and unless a stronger factor in
tervenes to check the process, the
drunkard and his seed after him are
moribund.
Various Authorities.
DR.. Ganghofner of Prague says that
I'm the asylums of America, England
and Holland, the total number of III
sane from drink is from 10 to 90 per
cent. and in France from 20 to 20 per
cent.
DR.. Lee of Philadelphia says three
fourths of the criminals. one-half OF
the diseases, One.third of the insanity,
rhree-fourths of the depravity of chill
dren and young people are caused by
drink.
DR.. z. l.. Williams, commissioner OF
lunacy for Colorado. says in his report,
page 2l1, that II is his opinion that in
toXication is far mighTier cause OF
mental disease than all other causes
put together, and then adds: THE
last census of the United States shows
that there has been a most alarming
increase In the number of lunatics
and idiots during the last decade
While the population has increased
by % per cent, the increase of the
insane Is given as little over 1856 per
cent"
DR.. Andrew Macfarlane. in his mon
ograph, The Duty of the State to the
Insane: The average life of an in.
sane person is ~ years, and costs the
State $4,000 for care and mainte.
nance"
In 1900 the facts showing the impor.
lance of drunkenness as a cause OF
insanity were so conclusive that DR..
Clouston in the Royal Edinburgh Asy.
lum Report, says: Taking the admis,
sions to the West House alone-that
Is, working people generally-and con.
filming the enquiry to men between the
ages of % and GO (the chiel earning
period of life), find that SO of the
total of 1874. or 42.7 per cent, were OF
those in which alcoholic excess was
assigned as the predlsposing or ex.
citing cause of their insanity"
DR.. Howe found, on careful investi.
CATION, that so per cent of all the idiots
in Massachusetts examined by him
were the children of Incorporate par.
ents.
DR.. oliver Wendell Holmes made
the characteristic observation that
the patient may always be saved II
the doctor is called in time; but he
should be called two or three hundred
years before the patient is born"
Cause Of Drunkenness.
The cause of drunkenness may be
considered as organic and environ.
mental-or in other words. thirst and
opportunity-and TO these two factors
must be devoted the energies OF rem
edial reform.
Prohibition does not prohibit. How
ever, 1t diminishes the drunkards oc.
casions OF drunkenness. He will not
stop drinking because he must travel
lar in order to drink, but he will be
more seldom land perhaps more thor
oughly) drink. Yet the Importance to
the persons who are about to become
drunkards is very different and 1t is
In the preventive value of those meas.
ures which prohibit the liquor traffic
or restrict its license and hours that
relief must be looked to.
According to Weissman.
According to weissman, the elemen.
tary mechanism of reproduction Is all
but Independent of environment and
uninhuenced by changes initiated dur
ing the life of the individual. Acquir.
ed conditions, therefore, morbid or
otherwise. cannot be transmitted to
posterity. The peculiar nervous or.
ganizatlon, favorable. to the acquisition
OF a particular character, Is all that
can be transmitted; the force of cir
cumstances does the rest.
The speaker said he had nothing to
say regarding local environments. He
said, further, he was not versed in the
how or why, but the man or woman
who sinks the God.given lac in the
abusive use Of alcohol is coward and
unworthy TO be classed as human.
Warden Henrys Paper.
Warden Henry's statement on "Pris
on Statistics and Experiences" was
read by Rev. W. ID. Westervelt. Ii
showed a great increase in the per
centage of drunkenness for the last BIZ
ennial period Mr., Henry goes on to
say:
We have confined in Oahu prison 95
convicts. Seventy-hve per cent re.
piled to the question respecting the use
of Intoxicating drinks that they had
been accustomed to use such bever,