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Inebriate Homes
Contents
Habitual
Drunkards Act 1879
Amendment
Act 1887
Drunkards Bill
1900-1909
General Index to
Parliamentary Papers
Inebriate Reformatories
Inspectors
Report 1907
Habitual Drunkards Act 1879
c 19 An Act to facilitate the control and cure of Habitual
Drunkards.
p 24 Amended in 51/52 Viv c 19. 1894.
Provides for establishment of Retreats for Habitual
Drunkards.
The Act had 36 Sections and 2 Schedules.
1-3 Short Title and Interpretation of Terms
4 Incorporation of Schedule with Forms
5 Local authority and Clerk of local authority
6 Establishment of "retreats" for which licences may
be granted by local authority
7 To whom licence may not be given
8 Power of local authority to tansfer licence
9 Removal of habitual drunkard from unfit habitation
10 Persons may be admitted to retreats on their own
application
11 Licensees of retreats to send notice of reception
12 Power of discharge
13 Inspector and Assistant Inspector of Retreats may be
appointed by the Secretary of State.
14 License to bear stamp, and fees to be accounted for to
local authority.
15 Inspection of retreats
16 Annual returns by the Inspector.
17 Rules as to management of retreats.
18 Judge of High Court of Justice etc may make orders
to inspect.
19 Permission that person detained may reside out of
retreat.
20 Absence to be reckoned in time of detention
21 Habitual drunkard may forfeit leave of absence
22 Revocation of leave of absence
23 Offences by licensees of retreats
24 Offences by offficers, servants, and other persons
25 Offences by habitual drunkards while detained
26 Apprehension of habitual drunkard escaping from
retreat.
27 Proceedings on death of person detained. Penalty for
neglect or ommission.
28 Penalty for offence against Act.
29 Application of Summary Jurisdiction Act.
30 Appeals.
31 Limitation of actions.
32 As to computation of time under 9-10 Vict c 66 s.1
33 No forfeiture for non-fulfilment of condition of
residence.
34 Fees to be prescribed
35 Application of Act to Scotland.
36 Application of Act to Ireland
Re Drunkards in PP's 1880-1889
Drunkards and Drunkenness Bills
Habitual Drunkards Act (1879) Amendment. Bill to Amend the Habitual Drunkards Act 1879 : 1887 (229) ii 453
Similar Bills - 1888 (141) iii 315 and 1888 (203) iii 319
Reports of Inspectors of Retreats
1st for 1880 - 1881 (354) xxiii 501
2nd for 1881 - 1882 (c.3376) xvii 925
3rd for 1882 - 1883 (c.3756) xviii 919
4th for 1883 - 1884 (c.4196) xviii 817
5th for 1884 - 1884-5 (c.4574) xv 329
6th for 1885 - 1886 (c.4822) xiv 957
7th for 1886 - 1887 (c.5200) xviii 731
8th for 1887 - 1888 (c.5497) xxvi 689
9th for 1888 - 1889 (c.5841) xviii 687
Papers
1 - Convictions, Residents and Population.
Return of Convictions for Drunkenness on Sunday in England and Wales, from 29th September 1876 to 29th September 1879, showing the bona-fide residents in the district where arrested, and population thereof.
1876-79 - 1880 (290) lix 189
1879-81 - 1882 (127) liv 125
1881-82 - 1882 (421) liv 131
1882-83 - 1884 (103) lxiii 129
1883-84 - 1884-85 (37) lxiv 165
1884-85 - 1886 (70 Sess 1) liii 89
1885-86 - 1887 (6) lxvii 105
2 Convictions Annual
Return for England and Wales of convictions in respect of
offences involving Drunkenness committed (i) after 12:30 noon on Sundays during the three years ended 1887
(ii) At any other time during the same period.
1887 - 1888 (391) lxxxii 131
1885-1888 - 1889 (285) lxi 107
3 Convictions Wales.
Return of persons proceeded against summarily in Wales for being Drunk, and Drunk and Disorderly, in the counties, boroughs and districts having a separate police force, during each of the nine months ending June 1882 and June 1883 - 1883 (328) lv 177.
Return showing the Arrests for Drunkenness during 1881 and 1883 in each borough and county in Wales
a) between 8 a.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m. on Sundays
b) between 8 a.m. on Sundays and 8 a.m. on Mondays
c) during the remainder of the week
1884 (188) lxiii 135.
1890-1899
Drunkards and Drunkenness Bills -
Habitual Inebriates Bill to provide for the Treatment of Habitual Inebriates 1898 (187) iv 517 - Amended by Law Com. 1898 (296) iv 529.
Bill to Amend the Inebriates Act 1898
1899 (87) v 247
Report of Select Committee : Habitual Inebriates Bill.
Proceedings 1898 (286) x 31.
Reports of Departmental Committees and Others :
Reports of Inspectors of Retreats
10th for 1889 - 1890 (c.6163) xx 797.
11th 1890-91 (c.6473) xix 669
12th 1892 (c.6741) xx 645
13th 1893-4 (c.7130) xvii 587
14th 1894 (c.7519) xxi 695
15th 1895 (c.7861) xxxv 377
16th 1896 (c.8188) xix 701
17th 1897 (c.8563) xvii 685
18th 1898 (c.8997) xiv 403
19th 1899 (c.9451) xii 731
2 Reformatories for Inebriates
Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to advise as to the Regulations for Inebriate Reformatories, to be made under the Inebriates Act 1898 : 1899 (c.9112) xii 749
3 Treatment of Inebriates
Report from the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Inebriates, with Evidence, Appendices, and Index
1893-4 (c.7008) xvii 597
Papers
1 Convictions
Return for England and Wales of the total number of convictions in respect of offences involving Drunkenness under the Acts committed
(i) after 12:30 noon on Sundays
ii) At any other time during the same period.
In continuation of No 285 1889
1890 (362) lix 169
1890-91 (377) lxiv 437
Return for England and Wales of convictions in respect of
offences involving Drunkenness committed during 1891,
after 12:30 noon on Sundays, and at any other time, and of
Licensed Persons for permitting Drunkenness on their premises etc.
1892 (292 Sess 1) lxv 109
1893-94 (424) lxxiv Pt 1 139
1895 (26) lxxxi 323
1896 (300) lxix 195
2 Reformatory Regulations.
General Regulations for the Management and Discipline of
certified Inebriate Reformatories under the Inebriates Act 1898 1899 (c.9114) lxxix 185.
See also under Licensing Acts Bills. 10 Sale of Intoxicating Liquors (Prohibited Persons) Bill to Prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to persons of Drunken Habits : 1893-4 (372) vii 115.
Bill to empower Magistrates to Prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to persons previously Convicted of Drunkenness. : 1895 (219 Sess I) vi 35.
1900-1909
Drunkards and Drunkenness Bills - Drunkards Bill intituled An Act to Amend the Law with respect to Drunkenness 1901 (241) i 443.
Inebriates Act Amendment.
Bill to Amend the Inebriates Acts 1879 to 1899, and to make
further provision for the control and cure of Habitual Inebriates. 1901 (205) ii 531.
Reports of Commissioners - Annual Reports of Inspectors
20th Report of the Inspectors of Retreats and 1st Report of the Inspector of Certified Reformatories under the Inebriates Act 1899
20th and 1st 1901 (Cd. 445) x 735
2nd 1900 - 1902 (Cd.811) xii 599
3rd 1901 - 1902 (Cd.1381) xii 697
4th 1902 - 1904 (Cd.1823) x 657
5th 1903 - 1905 (Cd.2285) xi 1
6th 1904 - 1905 (Cd.2590) xi 147
7th 1905 - 1906 (Cd.3246) xvi 1
8th 1906 - 1907 (Cd.3685) x 589
9th 1907 - 1908 (Cd.4342) xii 1107
Retreats, Reformatories for Inebriates (Inspector's Report)
Supplement to the Report of the Inspector under the Inebriates Acts (1879-1899) for 1901, being a collection of British, Colonial, and Foreign Statutes relating to the Penal and Reformatory Treatment of Habitual Inebriates. 1903 (Cd.1474) xii 419
Report of the Inspector of an outbreak of Enteric Fever at Brentry Inebriate Reformatory 1908 (Cd.3938) xii 1141.
Inebriates (Reformatories)
Report of Departmental Committee as to the operation of the Law relating to Inebriates and their Detention in Reformatories and Retreats. 1908 (Cd.4438) xii 817
Minutes of Evidence, Appendices and Index. 1908 (Cd.4439) xii 861
Papers
Inebriates Acts.
Rules for Retreats licensed under the Inebriates Acts 1879-1899 dated 28th February 1901 : 1901 (99) lxi 191.
Rules dated 28th February 1907 : 1907 (170) lxix 197.
General Regulations for State Reformatories 1901 (Cd.656) lxi 199
Regulations for State Reformatories 1904 (174) lxxx 187.
Regulations for Transfers between Certified and State Reformatories
1902 (206) lxxxiv 15
Regulations for the Detention of Inebriates : 1902 (361) lxxxiv 9
Regulations respecting the Absence under Licence of Inmates of Certified Inebriate Reformatories ; 1902 (201) lxxxiv 13
Regulations prescribing the diet for ill-conducted inmates of
State Reformatories ; 1904 (20) lxxx 197
Regulation respecting photographing inmates of Certified
Reformatories; 1904 (330) lxxx 195.
Statistics of Certified and State Reformatories
Return showing the State Reformatories instituted or about to be instituted under Section 3 of the Inebriates Act 1898,
and the Inebriate Reformatories Certified and in course of
Construction, with the male and female Accommodation in each; also, the Habitual Drunkards (male and female) Convicted, and those who, after conviction, were in 1899 under Detention in
Prison, until a suitable Reformarory was found; also the Retreats Certified and in course of Construction, with the Accommodation in each, and the Local Authorities Contributing in support of Certified Reformatories and Retreats. 1900 (346) lxix 187.
General Index to Parliamentary Papers 1900-1949
Drunkards and Drunkenness Bills
Bill to Consolidate and amend the Law relating to Inebriates
1912-13 (89) ii 843.
1913 (144) iii 157
1914 (49) iii 413
Reports
Report of Inspector under the Inebriates Acts
1908 - 1910 (Cd.5044) xxxvi 789.
Report of the Inspector for the year 1909 with Appendices of
cases in Reformatories and Prisons and Statistics of Certified Inebriate Reformatories since 1899.
1909 - 1911 (Cd. 5799) xxix Pt I p 11
1910 - 1912-13 (Cd.6166) xxix 497
1911 - 1913 (Cd.6822) xxvii 703
1912 - 1914 (Cd.7281) xxxvi 251
1913 - 1914-16 (Cd.7869) xxiv 37
Papers.
1 - Convictions
Return of Convictions for Drunkenness in England and Wales during the years 1915-18 : 1919 (57) xlii 349.
LUNACY in 1900-1949
See pp 449-453 also covers Ireland and Scotland
POOR Law in 1900-1949
See pp 554-560
PRISONS
See pp 572-576
Inebriate
Reformatories
From PP 1900 (346) Vol LXIX pp 187-193
Return giving the Number and Names, with Addresses of State reformatories instituted, or about to be instituted, under
Section 3 of the Inebriates Act 1898, with the Number of
Males and Females to be accommodated in each; similar Return of Inebriate Reformatories certified and in course of
construction; the number of Habitual Drunkards convicted as
such under the Act, in the year 1899; and the Number of Habitual Drunkards, who, after conviction, were in 1899 under detention in Prison until a suitable reformatory willing to receive them was found; the Number and Names, with Addresses of retreats certified and in course of construction, with the Number of Males and Females to be
accommodated in each; and the Names of the Local Authorities contributing, or willing to contribute, with particulars of such contribution, in support of certified
reformatories and retreats.
p 188 B - Inebriate Reformatories Certified
One Inebriate Reformatory for Males and five Inebriate
Reformatories for Females have been certified : they are :-
1 Inebriate Reformatory for Males - Brentry Gloucs 30 Male
2 Inebriate Reformatory for Females - Brentry Gloucs 75 Female
3 St Joseph's Inebriate Reformatory - Ashford Mdx 75 Female
4 Duxhurst Inebriate Reformatory - Duxhurst Reigate 22 Female
5 The Inebriate Reformatory for Females - Horfield Gloucs 25 Female
6 Farnfield Inebriate Reformatory for Females - Horley Surrey LCC
30 Females.
The following Inebriate Reformatories are in course of construction Inebriate Reformatory for Males - Holmwood Surrey 20 Males Inebritate Reformatory for Females (Prostitutes)
Edgbaston Birmingham 25 Females.
Total Convictions in 1899 under Sections 1 and 2 of the 1898 Act
Under Sect 1 - 2 Males and 7 Females
Under Sect 2 - No Males and 83 Females.
Of the 90 convictions 88 were actually received into Reformatories 2 were discharged because no institution was available 2 were undergoing a preliminary prison sentence at the close of the year previous to admission to a Reformatory.
C - Number and Names and Addresses of Retreats Certified.
1 Amesbury House Amesbury Wilts 2 Male 1 Female
2 St Veronica's Retreat, Chiswick 40 Female
3 The Grove Retreat Fallowfield nr Manchester 25 Female
4 Capel Lodge, Folkestone 10 Male
5 Kingswood Park, nr Bristol 18 Male
6 Dalrymple House, Rickmansworth 20 Male
7 High Shot House, Twickenham 12 Male
8 Street Court Kingsland RSO. Herefordshire 10 Male
9 Tower House Retreat, Westgate on Sea 14 Male 6 Female
10 Aston Hall, Sutton Coldfield 10 Male
11 Northlands, 10-12 North St Wandsworth 5 Female
12 Prospect Hill Urmston Lane nr Manchester 10 Female
13 Spelthorne St Mary, Bedfont Middlesex 10 Female
14 Addiscombe Lodge, 71 Lwr A Rd Croydon 7 Female
15 Buntingford House, Buntingford, Herts 35 Male
16 Corngreaves Hall, Cradley,Staffs 20 Female
17 Royal Victoria Homes, Brentry, Gloucs 50 Female
Four other institutions, now conducted as private Homes, are at present considering the question of applying for licence under the Acts, but as the subject is still under discussion, the prospective licensees decline to permit their names to be made public.
The following Counties and Boroughs have subscribed towards the establishment of the Brentry Reformatories, to the extent of the amount against each name. In addition to this original contribution each authority has agreed to pay the sum of 3s-6d per head per
week as maintenance charge for all cases committed from their district.
Bath 1000 for 7 beds
Birkenhead 1000 for 7 beds
Birmingham 2000 for 15 beds
Brighton 1000 for 7 beds
Bristol 2000 for 15 beds
Buckinghamshire 1000 for 7 beds
Essex 1000 for 7 beds
Gloucestershire 1000 for 7 beds
Hertfordshire 1000 for 7 beds
Kent 1000 for 7 beds
Leicester (Borough) 1000 for 7 beds
Middlesex 1000 for 7 beds
Monmouthshire 1000 for 7 beds
Newport 1000 for 7 beds
Reading 1000 for 7 beds
Somersetshire 1000 for 7 beds
Staffordshire 1000 for 7 beds
Surrey 1000 for 7 beds
Sussex, East 1000 for 7 beds
Warwickshire 1000 for 7 beds
West Ham 1000 for 7 beds
Wolverhampton 1000 for 7 beds
Worcestershire 1000 for 7 beds
Five other Councils who have the question under consideration have not yet finally decided to contribute, but in each case their special commitees have recommended such action.
Other Local Authorities Viz :- London County Council -
Corporation of London - York, Cardiff, Sheffield and Lancashire are contracting with Ashford and Duxhurst Reformatories for reception of cases, on payments averaging about 7s per head per week, to include both establishment and maintenance charges.
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham and Cardiff, and some of the
southern counties of England have deferred definite contribution to existing Reformatories pending a decision to build for their own use.
Cd.4438 Report of Departmental Committee 817
pages i-iii and 001-039 From PP 1908 XII
Chap 1 p 7 The History of Legislation Concerning Inebriates.
Chap 2 p 8 The Habitual Drunkards Act 1879
Chap 3 p 15 The Inebriates Act 1898
Chap 4 p 23 The State Inebriate Reformatories
p 29 Item 103
At the time of our enquiry, we found 11 certified reformatories in regular work, one of which consisted merely of a small certified portion of a larger institution. The remaining ten were specially established, at the following cost.
Langho - Lancs C.C. 111,349 185 beds 596
Cattal - Yorks C.C. 43,403 80 beds 542
Farmfield - LCC. 45,584 113 beds 403
Brentry - Joint Board 24 LA's 48,102 240 beds 200
Duxhurst - Lady Hy Somerset 6,000 32 beds 187
Horfield - National Instn 3,640 20 beds 182
Chesterfield - National Instn 7,862 57 beds 138
Lewes - National Instn 16,164 150 beds 108
Ackworth - National Instn 9,070 90 beds 101
East Harling - National Instn 29,980 300 beds 100
Totals 320,154 1,267 Ave 252
Chap 5 p 26 The State and Local Authorities re Finance
Recommendations I to XL pp 33-39
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Cd.4439 Minutes of Evidence before the Committee 861-1105
pp i-v and 001-235 Questions 1-1762
pp 183-208 Memoranda.
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Cd.4342 Report of Inspector Under Inebriates Acts
for the year 1907 1107
pp 001-033
p 008 Daily Average Numbers of Inmates at State Reformatories
East Harling 222.95
Ackworth 64.91
Lewes 131.11
Chesterfield 30.93
Horfield 10.00
Brentry 218.98
Langho 138.49
Duxhurst 9.50
Farmfield 104.61
Cattal 63.19
p 013 Dates of Certificates and Numbers allowed
Brentry 30th Mar 1899 105 Female 135 Male
Horfield 22nd Apr 1899 20 Female
Duxhurst 10th Apr 1899 32 Female
Farmfield 25th Jun 1900 113 Female
Chesterfield 1st Oct 1902 57 Female
Lewes 19th Nov 1902 150 Female
Ackworth 24th Dec 1903 90 Female
Langho 11th Apr 1904 185 Female
East Harling 15th Nov 1904 209 Female
Cattal 10th Apr 1905 20 Male 60 Female
Abbotswood 25th Apr 1908 10 Male
p 029 List of (22) Retreats Under Licence and patients admitted in 1907.
To Copy.
Cd.3938 Report on Outbreak of Enteric Fever at Brentry 1141
Cd.3835 3rd Report Inspector Inebriates for Ireland 1149
pp 001-032
Report on Certified Inebriate Reformatory
St Patrick's at Waterford for 30 RC Males Rev Patrick Feeney.
Inebriate Retreat
The Lodge at Belfast.
Sydenham Avenue Strandtown Belfast - Miss Rachel Clarke
Licence dated 3rd April 1905 for 14 Females.
Cd.4371 4th Report Inspector Inebriates for Ireland 1181
pp 001-015
Report on the Waterford Certified Reformatory
Supdt now Rev Edward M'Guiness.
Inebriate Retreat
The Lodge Belfast still Miss R Clarke now for 16 Females.
Cd.3824 4th Report Inspector Inebriates for Scotland 1197
pp i-x and 001-030
p iii List of Retreats and Accommodation
Invernith Retreat 34 M
Newmains Retreat 16 F
Seafield Retreat 16 F
Girgenti Reformatory 58 F
Greenock Reformatory 30 F
Scottish Labour Colony Reformatory 10 M
Lanarkshire Reformatory 10 F
Aberdeen Reformatory 8 F
State Reformatory 32 9M 23F
Total for 53 Males and 161 Females.
Cd.4408 5th Report Inspector Inebriates for Scotland 1237
pp i-xi and 001-026
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