{"id":276,"date":"2017-10-10T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:35:57","slug":"1896-intemperance-as-a-cause-of-mortality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-women-reformers-georgia\/1896-intemperance-as-a-cause-of-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"1896- Intemperance as a Cause of Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZKi8xMr_KGcC&amp;lpg=RA1-PA30&amp;ots=UCQlg0L1ZG&amp;dq=Sociological%20Club%20Atlanta%20Proctor&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">&#8220;Intemperance As a Cause of Mortality,&#8221;<\/a> Georgia Swift King outlines the ways intemperance leads to high levels of mortality among African American city dwellers, arguing that they are not only more susceptible to a range of disease but that they also endanger the next generation. She points to the &#8220;ignorant, drunken class of Negroes&#8221; as the true culprits (28). Interestingly, she does not ask for prohibition but rather concludes by asking for a state-funded reformatory for juvenile offenders who were tempted by alcohol and tobacco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Intemperance As a Cause of Mortality,&#8221; Georgia Swift King outlines the ways intemperance leads to high levels of mortality among African American city dwellers, arguing that they are not only more susceptible to a range of disease but that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/sources\/documents\/black-women-reformers-georgia\/1896-intemperance-as-a-cause-of-mortality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":0,"parent":213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-prohibition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}