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The Working of the Inebriates Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

John Carswell
John Carswell*
Affiliation:
Glasgow Corporation
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Extract

I propose to deal with this subject under the three following heads:

  1. 1. What the Act was expected to accomplish.

  2. 2. What it is accomplishing.

  3. 3. What an adequate Inebriates Act ought to accomplish.

First, then, what was the Act expected to accomplish?

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 47 , Issue 199 , October 1901 , pp. 658 - 666
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1901 

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References

(1) This has been done by the passing of an amending Act.—Google Scholar

(2) “Including drunk and incapables we are well within the mark if we take it that 90 to 95 per cent. of the adult offenders, charged before police magistrates in Scotland with offences other than contravention of local police regulations, are under the influence of drink at the time when the offences are committed” (Report, p. 46).—Google Scholar

(3) First Report of the Inspector of Certified Reformatories under the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899, p. 38. — Google Scholar

(4) Ibid., p. 39.Google Scholar

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