Women's organizations were active participants from the beginning, arguing that alcohol made men neglect their families and abuse their wives.

妇女组织从一开始就是积极参与者，认为酒精使男人忽视家庭并虐待妻子。

(Ms Burke thinks the men may have been abusing their wives.) One dignitary guessed that 500 men could have been killed by de Grandis's toxic mixture, their deaths mistaken for plague fatalities.

(伯克认为，这些男子可能一直在虐待他们的妻子。)一位政要猜测，可能有500人死于德·格兰迪斯的毒药，人们误以为他们是得了瘟疫而死亡。