In the first, so extraordinarily premature, the child was born alive, and lived more than half an hour without respiration, unless we assume, physiologically, from the action of the heart, that this process necessarily existed, though too feebly to be observed by the senses; but then, in ordinary cases, we must be guided by the senses, and judge of a child's state by them.
DICAL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JOURN can be little doubt that a measure of the kind would be heartily welcomed, and would meet with great support. Your Committee trusts that the session will not terminate before the introduction of the promised Bill. Such a Bill should include: i. The compulsory therapeutic detention of habitual drunkards, after a judicial process, on sworn medical testimony, and with every possible safeguarding of the liberty of the subject. 2. The establishment and management of special homes for inebriates for the poorest, for criminal and non-criminal inebriate offenders. 3. The inclusion of intoxication by any narcotic in the term "'habitual drunkenness." 4. The appearance of voluntary applicants for curative detention before one justice instead of two justices as at present, or before some other authorised official. 5. Magisterial discretion to award a term of curative restraint in a reformatory or hospital, instead of a term of imprisonment in a gaol. It would also be desirable to have all habitual drunkards under curative treatment subject to State or municipal inspection. The Committee is glad to learn that in Austria, while the authorities are considering the project of special legislation for inebriates, one clinic has been set apart specially for the treatment of habitual drunkards.
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