Hospital, between the years 1822 and 1889, comprising 1,000
cases, was 25 per cent.; but a gradual increase in mortality had
been noted from 10 per cent. in the first decade of the seventy
years represented by this report, to 28 per cent. in the last
decade.

"According to the report of the Supervising Surgeon General of
the U.S. Marine Hospital Service for 1888, the number of cases
of pneumonia treated between 1880 and 1887 was 1,649, with 311
deaths--nearly 19 per cent.

"The Cincinnati Hospital reported for 1886 a mortality rate in
pneumonia of 38 per cent.

"The mortality rate in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, for
1889, according to Dr. Heltoin, relating to 80 cases of
pneumonia, was 36 per cent."

Only a five per cent. death-rate in typhoid fever without alcohol, and
from sixteen to twenty-two per cent. with alcohol; only a twelve per
cent. death-rate in pneumonia without alcohol, and from 19 to as high as
38 per cent. with alcohol. Such are the comparative death-rates given by
Dr. Davis. They should be committed to memory by every opposer of the
use of alcohol, as they show clearly that people have many more chances
for recovery, other things being equal, in the diseases mentioned, if
alcohol is not used than if it is.

It is worthy of mention in this connection that Cook County Hospital
contains in its report for 1897 the following items: Number of patients
19,536; cost of liquors $80.00; per cent. of deaths from all causes,
5.7. The cost of liquors is only .004 for each patient. This shows a
decided advance in the disuse of alcohol, when so very little is used in
a great hospital, with so large a number of patients.

Dr. A. L. Loomis, in the treatment of 600 typhus fever cases on
Blackwell's Island in 1864, excluded alcoholics, with the result of
reducing the mortality rate to only six per cent. whereas it had
previously been twenty-two per cent., in Bellevue Hospital from which
the patients had been removed.

In Battle Creek Sanitarium no alcohol is used in any disease, simply
because the management believe better results are obtained by the use of
other agencies. In the October, (1893) number of the _American Medical
Temperance Quarterly_ now _Bulletin of the A. M. T. A._, Dr. J. H.
Kellogg gives statistics of deaths from various diseases in the Battle
Creek Sanitarium. The total of these statistics is as follows: la
grippe, 827 cases, 4 de