The Control of the Drink Trade in Britain: A Contribution to National Efficiency during the Great War, 1915-1918

1919

Truby King Collection HV 5087 G8 C986 1919

London: Longmans, Green and Co.

Truby King considered alcoholism a vice, not a disease, and his advocacy of small and dispersed housing for patients led to the establishment of the Orokonui Home for Inebriates. It was here that recovery could take place. Although obviously well read on the subject, he retained prejudices towards women and their abilities to counter this ‘vice’: unlike men they were less likely to reform because they had a greater susceptibility to drink. Even after Seacliff he continued reading on the subject; this copy of Carter’s The Control of the Drink Trade in Britain is signed and dated ‘Melrose, Wellington, 1925’.