Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Narcotics, Mental Illness, Hospitals, Government

    Arguing that the only plausible part of the word 'Dipsomania' is 'mania', laments the case of a 'maniac of the tipsy class' who killed himself by jumping out of window. Provides an extract of a report which recounts that relatives of the deceased could not restrain him by sending him to a lunatic asylum because they did not possess a medical certificate. Urges that 'Humanity must admit that the suicide of a sot' should be prevented and expects that it will take a statesman being struck by a falling drunkard to make an 'Act for the safe Custody and Care of Persons afflicted with Delirium Tremens'.