Public warning. Be it known to all men that, according to medical opinion, a further outbreak of the influenza epidemic may occur in the next few months ... the public is hereby warned not to jeopardise their individual lives by acquiescing in the demands of the Prohibitionists to prevent the use of alcoholic stimulants, either in health or disease. NZ Times Print [1919]

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Public warning. Be it known to all men that, according to medical opinion, a further outbreak of the influenza epidemic may occur in the next few months ... the public is hereby warned not to jeopardise their individual lives by acquiescing in the demands of the Prohibitionists to prevent the use of alcoholic stimulants, either in health or disease. NZ Times Print [1919]

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Poster argues that alcoholic stimulants are the most useful remedy in the primary stages of the influenza outbreak, and warns the public about the efforts of Prohibitionists to ban alcohol. Quotes Dr T H A Valentine [Valintine], Chief Health officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, who stated, in the Epidemic Commission evidence, 11 March 1919, that: "From what I have seen during the epidemic, I am convinced that it is necessary that alcohol should be available for the people". Quantity:...

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1919

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New Zealand Times Company Ltd

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Valintine, Thomas Harcourt Ambrose, 1865-1945 / Liquor industry / Prohibition / New Zealand / Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 / Alcohol / Physiological effect / Traditional medicine / Drinking of alcoholic beverages

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