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A REPLY TO CRITICISMS OF THE 



made the Secretary informed us, before starting the work, 

 that we might consider the parents as sober, or that the 

 Committee's inquiries, in most cases from police, missions 

 and employers, had produced no evidence of drink. 



The following is Sir Victor Horsley and Dr. Sturge*s 

 List of Teetotal Fathers : — 



Index 

 No. 



57 

 93 



io8 

 141 



M7 



244 



Habits of VVife. 

 Horsley & Sturge. 



No evidence. 



Teetotaler. 



Probably a teetotaler. 



Teetotaler. 

 No evidence.* 



Dead nine years. 



No evidence. 



No evidence.* 



My remarks^ with extracts from the Edin- 

 burgh Report. 



Included by us among the drinking fathers, 

 because he had been ' a drunken wreck till two 

 years ago '. Not included in table of families, 

 because the wife is dead and there is no mention 

 of her habits. 



All the family are Good Templars ; no history 

 of drinking. Included by us in the group 

 ' neither parent drinks '. 



Why * probably ' ? The report says, * Decent, 

 spotless clean house and family ; teetotal and 

 well-doing. Included in ' neither parent drinks'. 

 No history of drink. Included in ' neither 

 parent drinks '. 



No history of drink, and therefore wife was 

 sober, the husband was a strict teetotaler for 

 the last twelve years of his life. The account 

 does 7iot state that he drank before this, only 

 that he became a strict teetotaler. *In our 

 opinion ', write Sir V. H. and Dr. S., ' the 

 father's parentage of these children was not, 

 strictly speaking, a teetotal one, but an alco- 

 holic one, in diminishing ratio'. The first 

 child of whom we have details is 'dull', and 

 Sir Victor Horsley tells us that it * was born 

 immediately after the father's teetotalism com- 

 menced, and the three others followed within 

 five years'. The child was born 2^ years 

 after the father became a strict teetotaler : 

 there is no evidence that he drank before that, 

 and the youngest child 7, not 5, years after 

 the strict teetotalism commenced. 

 Included as a drinker because he drank hard 

 till his wife's death. Not included in any 

 group of both parents, because his wife was 

 dead and no details as to her habits given. 

 IncoiTect statement made by Sir Victor and 

 Dr. S. : Father still drunken although he has 

 taken the pledge. Therefore not included in 

 our table of teetotalers. 



No history of drink. Wife sober. Erroneous 

 statement of Sir V. H. and Dr. S. 



