[Rarebooks] FS: 1883 Pamphlet on Alcohol Use in Concord, Massachusetts

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Financial Connection of the Use of Spirits and Wine With the
People of Concord, Massachusetts”

By Edward Jarvis, M.D.
Published in Boston by the Beacon Press in 1883.

DISCUSSION: Edward Jarvis [1803-1884] was a Concord resident, Harvard
College graduate, a physician, a social statistician who was also the
President of the American Statistical Association, and the author of books
and articles on physiology, insanity, social statistics, and Concord
history.

In this speech, presented to the American Statistical Association on
October 20, 1882, Jarvis discusses the habits and effects of alcohol
consumption on the farmers and other classes of Concord, using a survey he
and Dr. Josiah Bartlett conducted in Concord in 1834 and comparing it to
conditions in town in the 1880s.

Although a Temperance advocate himself, and from a family of teetotalers,
Dr. Jarvis for the most part refrains from the strident sort of preaching
found among the writings of many of his contemporaries, although he is
obviously pleased that alcohol consumption has declined in the decades
since the 1830s, and does not fail to point out the many harmful effects
of the habit of daily imbibing. What is most interesting in the piece is
his fairly detailed recounting of the habits of alcohol consumption of
local farmers and others in the 1820s and 1830s, where grog, beer and rum
were taken out to the fields to help the field hands get through their
workdays.

An uncommon pamphlet in the marketplace.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 5.5”x8.5”, 14 pages.

CONDITION NOTES: Some minor wear and light soil, starting to split at the
bottom of the spine.

PRICE: $125 -

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