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Chapter Seventy-Six- Regulate It!
Chapter Seventy-Six- Regulate It!
Grant was a former alcoholic. He had turned to the drink after leavening his job and struggling with life. Though he and manged to come around he still saw alcohol as a massive problem in America . Though he knew he could not ban it for income from booze was too much to remove it completely. However, a report in 1877 allowed grant to enact some forms not just on alcohol. Florence Nightingale and the health department had come up with a number of findings on food and drink, the way it was stored and used. The effects of alcohol on the human body were also discovered along with the long-term societal effects of Tabaco after many surveys among the population. Grant saw this as a chance to act on it and began drafting up reforms with Nightingale. Though he knew he would not be liked for it, the long-term health benefits would be needed. The Pure Food and Drug Act 1878, the Alcohol laws of 1878 and the meat inspection act of 1878 were all passed. Collectively, the laws provided for the labelling of foods and drugs and the inspection of livestock, and mandated sanitary conditions at meatpacking plants. An age limit of 16 was placed on Alcohol meaning it could no longer be sold in normal shops, instead new shops would open that would sell only Alcohol boosting the economy further. Acts of violence or destruction while under the influence of Alcohol was made a crime so was abusing one partner under the influence of Alcohol. it was the answer to the calls for probation for now but the issue would not die down. to some Alcohol was simply the devil's brew.