hoped that she will be quite cured.

_C.D._ Aged thirty. C.D.'s father, a farmer, was a moderate
drinker, her mother was a temperance woman. Her parents
discovered her craving for drink about ten years ago. She
was unable to keep any situation on account of this failing.
Four years ago C.D. was sent to an Inebriate Home for twelve
months, but no cure was effected. Afterwards she
disappeared, having been dismissed from her place, and was
found again for the mother by the Salvation Army. At the
time of my visit she had been six months in the Home, and
was doing well.

_E.F._ Aged forty-eight; was the widow of a professional
man, whom she married as his second wife, and by whom she
had two children, one of whom survives. She began to drink
before her husband's death, and this tendency was increased
by family troubles that arose over his will. She mismanaged
his business and lost everything, drank heavily and
despaired. She tried to keep a boarding house, but her
furniture was seized and she came absolutely to the end of
her resources, her own daughter being sent away to her
relatives. E.F. was nine months in the Hillsborough Home,
and had gone as cook and housekeeper to a situation, where
she also was giving every satisfaction.




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