The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

Appendices.
A4ppendix " S" to the Report-of the Committee of Convocation on Intemperance, there are eighteen pages of
evidence on "Benefit to Health from Withdrawal of
Intoxicating Liquors" from prisoners apd inmates of
workhouses. The testimonies from governors and chaplains of prisons are 56, and from masters of workhouses,
89. A very few extracts are all that need be given as
samples of the rest. Governors and chaplains of prisons
say: "I have not known one whose health was affected."
" We are constantly hearing men say how well they can
do without drink." "I am not a teetotaler; but I know
of nothing that affords so good an evidence of the value
of teetotalism as its results in the case of hundreds of
prisoners on public works." "Prisoners come in very illthey recover wonderfully when taken away from drink. I
never saw one prisoner injured in his or her health by
enforced abstinence, but the reverse. The women often
recover their former good looks, even if they looked
ugly and hideous on their admission." The masters of
workhouses say: "The health of the paupers is greatly
improved." " I believe, speaking from an experience of
fifteen years as workhouse officer, that abstinence is beneficial to the general health of paupers." "A marked improvement is soon visible." "Twenty-four years' experience, I have not seen any injurious effects from total
abstinence." "Thirty years' experience convinces me
that total abstinence is not injurious to health." "We
have scarcely ever any sickness or disease of any kind
Out of ioo00 inmates we have 20 averaging 80 years, ir
perfect health, which speaks volumes in favor of absti
nence." "No injury whatever, but benefit." "In soint
cases persons came in lunatics, and by abstaining from
intoxicating liquors have been discharged sound in
mind and body."
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