Pamphlet read at the conference of the British Womens' Temperance Association, held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, E.C. on May 19th 1881. The British Women's Temperance Association (1876-1925) was founded under the presidency of Mrs Edward Parker in 1876 to organise women to encourage temperance by education and other means, and to agitate for the restriction of sales of alcohol. It later included gambling and moral welfare as part of its focus.
Pamphlet: page 5