Society for Labor Aid in the Yaroslavl Province Report on the asylum of alcoholics for 1905 Compiled by doctor A.A. Golosov

In the complex system of practical measures that are recommended to society for the fight against alcoholism, one of the important places is occupied by the so-called. shelters or shelters for acute alcoholics. Unfortunately, these shelters are extremely rare, and not only in the provinces, but also in St. Petersburg and Moscow, acute alcoholics find themselves from the street in the most barbaric conditions; quite often they are subjected to uniform torture as, for example. a well-known rubbing of ears for sobering up, they are often robbed, beaten and finally end up in the disgusting, dirty, cold and earthly corners of the "bedbugs".