Excerpt from The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1897, Vol. 30 In the judgment of police officials throughout Ontario the present system of committing inebriates to prison for short terms utterly fails to reform the poor unfortunates who come before them. A man arrested for drunkenness and sent to jail for a short term is discharged with the same appetite for drink and powerless to withstand the temptation, with a result that he is soon re-arrested and re-committed, and so the process goes on, until the man has lost all self-respect. Some five years ago a society was organized in Toronto called "The Ontario Society for the Reformation of Inebriates." The object of the Society is: 1. To promote the reformation of indigent inebriates in Ontario: (a) By making use of the public hospitals of the Province for the purpose, and (b) by combining therewith the Massachusetts Probation System. 2. The second object of the Society is to promote the reformation of inebriates in Toronto as follows: A medical officer and probation officer attend the Police Court and offer medical treatment and a helping hand to inebriate prisoners found desirous of such help. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.