Suggested practical checks on excessive drinking and habitual drunkenness

Abstract

In the session of 1871, the late Government introduced into Parliament a Licensing Bill, and the late Mr. Donald Dalrymple introduced a Habitual Drunkards' Bill. Neither Bill became law; and in the interval between the sessions of 1871 and 1872, much public attention was directed to a consideration of the legislative measures to be adopted to restrain or prevent the evils of excessive drinking.