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The Wingham Times, 1894-11-23, Page 3D. T. U. GOLInif.1. !:1fl31TIlt TM TUN Wpgillusg MMAMen,) (iui. arul !fume root Natire %Volt nil the crt4ention. of the mothers mill suitors to the foot, thot the Woman's Ohristian Temper- ance (Aim' meets the third Menlo,L ery month at three o'clock dharp, Mr ono hour, et Mrs Holm's rosiiimusi, Patrick. street. All ladies are made we'. 001130. At the Editor bee kindly given us part oi apace. for our wort, 1U aslr friends of the cause to 'send items of interest on all moral qior 4 the day te +my bi our 'nowhere. Total Abstinence and Longevity. From tho Templar, Hamilton. Ont. On August 16th, the Advocate, organ of the liquor traffic, discussing the question of total abstinence in re- lation to life insurance, and in denial of the advantage which total ab- stainers as a class enjoy, in this par- ticular, over moderate drinkers, re- marked that "statistics already. avail- able prove that moderate drinkers are the longest livers." The Tem- plar called for proof to substantiate the statement, but it was not until we haC1 a fourth time made the re- quest that the Advocate, on Oct. lt, replied with the following If Bro. Buchanan 'will betake his whiskers to the Public' Library and lay hold of the publications of the British Medical Assoeiation he will find therein a "report of ,the, inquiry into the connection of disease with habits of in-. temperance." The report was made by the "collective investigation cent- mittee " of the British Medical As- sociation, and was prepared by Ism- . bard Owen, M. D., M. A., F. R. C. • P., Secretary of the Committee. In this connection 178 physicians re- ported.4,234 cases, all males above , the age of 25 years. The report is a most voluminofft affair, and contains a mass of facts and many deductiens. The statistics of the average age of death in the different classes are as follows: Years. Days. Total abstainers. 51 .80 •Temperate drinkers62 50 Careless drinkers 59 . 246 Free drinkers. ' 57 216 Decidedly intemperate52 14 So that our contemporay will see that we stated the exact truth: Not - only do statistics. prove that moderate drinkers are the longest livers, but that total abstainers are absolutely the shortest livers, falling behind the decidedly intemperate. When we called for the proof, we expected that the Advocate would produce the above statistics,, Bro. Buchanan has not required to go to the Public Library, having had the faets for some years in his pigeon • hole waiting for such game. Dr. Owen's report to the British Medical. Association was made over Six years ago, and since that. time has been thoroughly digested. The use which the Advocate makes of it was early resorted to by that portion of the press favorable to the - liquor traffic, and the attention of Dr. Owen being drawn thereto, he Wrote to the press over his own signature as follows the anther of the report " The connection Of Disease with Ha.bits of Intemperance," issued las year by the Collective Investigati Committee of the British Medical s- soeiation, I shall be glad if yo allow me to correct certain iron - ens ideas of itgpurport wh, I am - inforined by numerous rrespon- .:0- dents, have beeome cur nt among the p.e,Islie,,and are b&,.v dissemin- ated atalealated to o serious mis- ated interested pcs a man - chief!" "!':: It iiconstariti being asserted, I am told, on the thority of the re- port in questio 1 -that abstinence from alcoholleSighas been Nov-. ed to be ar.ba twamitiently prejihti- elal ,,andithat total abstaitk ers ti"siiown ta be a short01tve. b .. p,c .ef menthan even habit - nal drunkards. Permit me to say, sir, that my re- port is not answerable for any such absurdities. The assertions 1 refer to are founded On certain statistical figures contained itt the report, as re- gards relative longevity, and are as fel-lows 1, That .habitnal -indulgence in al- coholie liquors *beyond the most mod- erate -amounts has a distinct tendency to shorten life, the average shortou-• ing being roughly proportioned to tho degree of indulgence, 2. That of mon who have . passed the age of 25, the strietly tempeate on the average, live at least ten years longer than those Who have become decidedly intemperate. (We t4' have not in the returns .the Moans of . coining' to any conclusion as to the relative duration of Mb of total al. • stainers and habitually temperate. drinkers of alcoholic. liquors.) I. am,. sir, your obedient servant, IRAMISARD OWEN', III, D. Thereupon the British Medical Journal, organ of the British Medical .Association, added its condemnation i ot' the writers who made use of the report to assail total obstinence, Rarely (says the journal) has any document been the .subject of such extraordinary misconception and anisrepresentatiok as has fallen to the • lot of Dr. Isambard Owen's report of ' the collective ikestigation on the connection be rem) drink and diseases. All over the kingdom Dr. Owen has been represented as laying down, from the returns sent in to this committee, that total abstainers do not live so long as moderate drinkers, or even as those who are aetaally intemperate. Wo need hardly say to our readers that Dr. Owen has never said anything of the kind. On the contrary 116 distinctly stated that no conclusion could be drawn from the retUrns.as to the rel- ative longevity of teetotalers. It: is true. that the figures warrant a con- struction . of a table from which the casual observer, ignorant of the sub- ject, might suppose that the average life of the abstainer was some nine Months less than that of the decided, ly intemperate. But Dr. Owen de- _ votes considerable space to the ' ex- posure of such a fallacy. 111B ex- planation of the apparent anomaly is simply that, as the greater number of converts to abstinence have been from the young during the three years embraced in the, returns, the average age of adult abstainers must have been less than the average age of drinkers. He supports this explanation by constructing two tables of the average at death of per- sons between 30 and 40, and of those -above that age, with the result that the relative proportions aro greatly altered, The Conclusion, erroneously .attri- buted to Dr. Owen, is utterly un- warantable, though it has been par- aded in high-class journals of which better things might have been ex- pected. Taking into consideration how valueless vital statistics,. are Without the explanations which usually accompany them, it is cur- ious how so many writers have seized upon a few isolated figures, have put an interpretation on them they do not warrant, and barn eredi- ted conclusions to the editor of the returns which he not only never drew, but actually showed good reasons for not drawing. A careful. perusal of the eommittee's report would have saved not a few literary critics from a ludicrous blunder. It is not probable that the „Advo- cate did not know the above facts when it published the statistics in question. We believe, to quote the Medical Journal, that he did know that he had put an interpretation on them which they do not warrant and have credited conclusions to the editor of returns which he not only never drew, but actually shoyvd good reasons for not drawing. We. regret to be compelled to record our conviction that the Advocate, in .this instance, has knowingly corrupted the records and perverted the. facts • to mislead the public and bolster up the wretched liquor bnsinesS. It should have more principle. Additional interest has been se- cured this subject by the recent pub- lication in the Toronto World, Em- pire and Mail, of an, alleged cable- gram in which these statistics are re- produced, with minute variations, the 4,234 eases, however, never vary- -ing. The World of Oct. 28th, pub- lished and distributed on Saturday evening, Oct. 27, says that the statis- tics were presented at the reeent 1881-5the deaths'were seventy for ;meeting of the British Medical As- every 100 expected. soeiation, a statement absolutely and unqualifiedly false, The Empire and , Look Out fer 001c1 lAre4het• Mail of Monday', Oet. 29, published. but rine inside of the Electric Lighted and TU1ES 4OYEMj3ER 23. IS. $ 94 I nerjaar2ariaMeaktUissin ,SC't$1."&"yrrrvvv,rerr-rrssreL for EnfatlitS and Children. , 0THEFts,9 9ito 'You Know that Paregoric, Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-ealled Soothing SYrifFs' (lad most remedies for children aro composed of opium or morphino ? rDo Iran Si- that opium and morphine aro stupefying narcotic poisons ? Do Yon Know that in most countries druggists aro not permitted to soil -^- ivithout labeling them poisons Xto You Know that you should not permit any medicine to be g' • geas you or your physician know of *what it is composed ? Iron Itr.ow that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, ant.. ordionts is published with every bottle? Tem 11.now that Clastorla is the prescription of tho famous Dr. Balmer P.. :at been in use for nearly thirty years, and that raore Castor% Is now sold , t other remedies for children combined ? 'Do Von Nnavir, that tho Patent Ofnce Department of the United States, and ot ullor countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr, Pitcher and his assign's to use tiro word Oastorla" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense I liDoTou Knew- that one of the res-sonts for granting this government proteetionwas because Castoria had been proven to bo absolutely harmless? Do Yon ItExy'vr that 35 ;menace doses of Castoria are furnished ior 35 Gents, or cue cent a dose? XDo Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest 2 1717014 the',1 things aro worth knowing. They are facts. The fac-simi.le le en every zigics.ttiro of .(1:47.,...9fie4e. wrapper. fralldren Cry for PiiMzev's emstoria. e$ '4 • justly forfeit support. Our readers will not fail to mark the agreement between the very wording of the classification and average ages as published in the Ad- • vocata and the Empire and Mail. As to the relative longevity of total abstainers and moderate drink- ers, the British Medical Journal, to which the Advocate refers us, on March 18,1888, received with con- siderable formality, the mortality figures of total abstinence insurance societies as compared with- those of companies that insure teetotalers and drinkers promiscuously and made this comment :—" There can be little doubt as to the general tendency. of these striking tables in favor of the healthfulness of abstaining tem- peranee. Probably, however, the most valu- able of all the evidence that can be Present be obtained from the statis- tics of assurance associations is that supplied by the United Kingdom Temperaace and General Provident Institution. This society has had a long and wide experience. The com- parison between the mortality ex- perience of the temperance and that of the general insurers is based on the extent of the difference between the • expected and the actual death in both sections, and the expectation is based on the death -rate in the ac- tuaries' table re ult are th e public confidence and s s es : . ]'or the twenty years 18(6-85 ' expected deaths in the temperance I section were 3,384, and the actual deaths were 2,408; while in the gen- eral section tho expected deaths were 5,431, and the actual deaths were 5,248: One significant feet is that there has been a gradual decrease in the death -rate of the ab- stainers during the whole period., For the five years 1866-70, of every 100 deaths expected 73 took place; for the years , 1871-5, of every 100 expected deaths 71 occurred; for . the five years 1876-90, of every 100 ex- pected deaths 70 took place; and for Chancery Sittings. The sittings of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice was held in the court house. Gode- rich, on Monday, the 12th inst., be- fore the Honorable Mr. Justice McMahon. The first case on the list was Ratz v. Hall, an action by the plff. on a mortgage. The case was referred to the Master for administration and for enquiry and report. The next case was that of Fansou v. Fanson,which is an action brought against the deft. to recover monies said to be in his hands belonging to the estate of the plfrs father. Re- ferred to the Master to enquire and report. • Sample v. Sample was the next case on the list, and is an action brought by the plff. to have it de- clared that they are entitled to a lien on the deft's lands for money paid *by plff. for deft. Referred to the Master. Howe v. Ronald was an inter- pleader action brought to try the ownership of certain goods seized by the sheriff under an execution, deft. declaring the goods are not the goods of the claimant and therefore liable A to be sold under the execution. Judgment was given for the defen- dant, who has to pay the costs. The value of the stock in dispute was about $560. the alleged cableoTam, bearing date Stepan fTeatod Vestibule Apartment trains b ray an you will be as warm, comfort- thOtig11 not -affirming, that the repo* able end cheerful As in your 0Wir library or wa4 presented at the recent mean boudoiv• To - trove) between Chicago, St, OL the B. M. Association, . 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