veries
reached 46.97 per cent. Nearly one half of the patients had thus
recovered during the period stated. The inmates take their food
better without the liquor, and they are thus taught that
intoxicants are not a necessity of ordinary health."

In the _Medical Pioneer_ for January, 1894, Dr. John Mois, medical
superintendent of West Haven Infectious Diseases Hospital, states that
prior to 1885 he had treated 2,148 cases of smallpox "in the usual
routine method, with the use of alcohol when the heart's action seemed
to indicate it;" resulting in a mortality of 17 per cent. But since 1885
he has treated 700 additional cases under similar circumstances except
that the use of alcoholic preparations was entirely omitted, and the
resulting mortality was only 11 per cent.

In the same journal, Dr. J. J. Ridge states that he had treated the 200
cases of scarlet fever admitted into the Enfield Isolation Hospital
during the years 1892 and 1893, without alcohol in any form, with a
mortality of only 2.5 per cent.; while the mortality in the hospitals
under the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1893, in which alcohol was used
in accordance with the usual practice in scarlet fever, was 6.3 per
cent.

Dr. J. J. Ridge says later:--

"In January, 1894, I published the result of the treatment of
the first 200 cases of scarlatina admitted into the temporary
wards of the Enfield Isolation Hospital during 1892 and 1893. I
stated that there had been five fatal cases, but that one was
dying when admitted and only lived a few hours. The mortality
was 2 per cent., or 2.5 if the later case is included.

"Since then 300 more cases have been admitted and discharged and
among these there have been 7 fatal. Hence there have been 14
deaths in 500 consecutive cases extending over a period of a
little more than four years. One of these ought to be excluded,
no time having been given for treatment. Hence the mortality
has been just 2.6 per cent. This, I think it will be admitted,
is a low mortality, although it is possible it may be even lower
when the cases are treated in a permanent hospital about to be
erected.

"It may be interesting to state that 4 of the cases died on the
third day after admission; 1 on the fourth; 1 on the sixth; 1 on
the tenth, with pneumonia; 1 on the thirteenth; 1 on the
fifteenth; 1 on the sixteenth; 1 on the eighteenth; 1 on the