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Show HABITUAL DRUNKENNESS A MENTAL DI3EAS! Paterflon, N. J., August 21 Tk authorities of Passaic county havo i elded that habitual drunkcnno3a I mental disease, a form of Insanit rather than a crime, and persona vh are adjudged habitual drunkards wt hereafter bo committed to the rr lir Insano hospital for treatment. Ti first cases to bo so disposed came u here this week and resulted In a order by County Thyslclan Armstror committing Sadie Drew, fifty year old, and .Teannetto Phyllis, 46 vcv old, to the state asylum at Morr! Plains. Poth are old offenders and hav spent the preater part of the l twenty years In the county J ix 11 , tie! boIo offense belnp Intoxication. |