The Alcohol Factor in Social Conditions (Classic Reprint): Some Facts for Reformers: Some Facts for Reformers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

George Blaiklock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133015049X ISBN 13: 9781330150498

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A rigorous, evidence-based look at how alcohol affects society and reform efforts. This special inquiry examines whether drinking contributes to social and economic problems, with a clear, fact-driven aim to understand causation rather than promote any single theory.

The work surveys a wide range of issues—from childhood at home and school to adult employment and crime—using extracts from official reports, blue-books, and expert testimony. It notes how recent social reforms and shifts in policy have shaped outcomes, while calling attention to the persistent influence of alcohol on health, behavior, and living conditions.

• Grounded in methodical evidence gathered from officials, public authorities, and specialists.


• Explores the links between environment, housing, wages, and sobriety across age groups.


• Discusses physical health risks, including liver disease, tuberculosis, and mental health concerns.


• Argues for recognizing the liquor factor as a central concern in social reform and policy.

Ideal for readers interested in temperance history, social policy, and the data behind reforms aimed at healthier, more just communities.

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Excerpt from The Alcohol Factor in Social Conditions: Some Facts for Reformers The Operations of the League are directed to producing in the public mind an intelligent and conscientious conviction in regard to what should be the individual and collective attitude towards the use of Alcoholic Beverages. It Has Specialized for half a century in influencing the Medical Profession to engage in research into the nature of Alcohol and its effects, in small as well as large doses, upon the human organism in health and disease. It Has Influenced the Teaching Profession to encourage Scientific Instruction on Temperance in the Schools, into which it introduced the first chemical lectures fifty years ago. It Approached the Churches of all Denominations at their Annual Assemblies, and by the circulation of special literature; thus was created within religious circles an aggressive movement for Temperance. It Commenced to impress the Commercial Classes at the first Mansion House Meeting half a century ago, and has formed a Temperance Fellowship for the Leaders and Officials of Industrial Organisations. It Has Formulated evidence derived from conferences of City Missionaries, Poor Law Officers, School Visitors, and other Social Workers, upon the Relation of Alcohol to Child-life, Environment, Destitution and Crime. It Has Held an important Inquiry as to the Incidence of Temperance Reform to recent developments in Social Investigation, Administration and Legislation, which has afforded the useful evidence contained in the following pages. These Operations are continued, and are supplemented by upto-date measures, as opportunity is afforded by the Funds supplied by the Members of the League - who, being abstainers, subscribe 2s. 6d. annually (those contributing 10s. receive regularly the National Temperance Quarterly) - and by those who sympathise with its non-political, unsectarian, scientific and constructive methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133015049X
• ISBN 13: 9781330150498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 85