Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee of the Senate, and Second Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting a Prohibitory Liquor Law, 1873Great Britain, that the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is not essential to the health or well-being of the community, but that, on the contrary, it often leads to disease and premature death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.