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Show EVILS OF ALCOHOLISM. . At a recent medical conference in England Dr. Clave' Shaw- of London made some striking statements. Drunken parents produce children with all sorts of deformities, mental and physical; the children of drunken women wo-men fill asylums: 56 per cent of the offspring of inebriate women, die at birth or under the age of 2 years, I while in the case of sober women the I percentage is only 26. Children of inebriate parents were sodden with drink hefore they were born, and showed the classic signs of I degeneracy in after life, even if they themselves were abstainers. Neurotic, hasty, impulsive, without self-control, they had to suffer through life for sins committed by their mothers. moth-ers. The doctor mentioned a case which had come under his notice a family of six the four eldest sane and normal, the two youngest quite degenerate. On inquiry he found that the mother took ! to drink after the birth of her fourth ; child. - ! Do not imagine that the evil is con- j fined to the poor. 'Women of fashion, women of frivolity, women, who need a stimulant for their jaded nerves these women also take to drink, and you find these unfortunate neurotic conditions in their families. Dr. Sullivan, speaking with experience experi-ence as a prison doctcfr, says that, great as was the evil of alcohol in provoking pro-voking crimes of violence, that evil was slight compared with, the production produc-tion of moral imbeciles as the result of the drunkenness of the parents. , . Dr. Wynn Westcott says that in London Lon-don alone 600 babies are killed every year by their mothers lying on top of them while in an inebriate . condition. In German' such deaths - are almost unknown. German mothers do not .get drunk. English mothers do. Church Progress. I |