When Is a Man Drunk?
Year: 1913
Type: article
Abstract: A RECENT case in the Marylebone Police Court, where Mr. Plowden acquitted a taxicab-driver charged with drunkenness, revives the knotty question, When is a man drunk?To judge by answers given in Courts of Justice, the man accused of drunkenness is allowed a latitude wider than that Mr. Plowden gave the taxicab-driver.In popular esteem the stages towards drunkenness are many.In 1805 it was said of 200,000 Londoners who spent Sunday in the inns and tea-gardens round the Metropolis, that at nightfall 50,000 were sober, 90,000 in high glee, 30,000 drunkish, 10,000 staggering tipsy, and 5,000 dead drunk.An old couplet runs : " He is not drunk who's on the floor And rises again and asks for more.
Source: British Journal of Inebriety
Author: NORMAN PORRITT
Institution: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2010596074