900 to 1908. Those for 1900 show the cost of liquors to be $774.20
and for 1908 only $331.48. The number of patients was not given.

Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia:--"That less liquor is now used than
formerly is a fact well known to all connected with the institution."

Garfield Memorial, Washington, D. C., sent figures for ten years. For
1899 the cost of liquors was $490.08, with a steady decrease to 1908
when the cost was $274.58. Number of patients in 1899 was 1,171; in
1908, 1,898 patients. The _per capita_ for 1908 was .144 cents.

University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan:--"Very little alcohol is
prescribed in this hospital."

Maine General Hospital, Portland:--"Comparatively speaking, we use but
little alcohol for the reason that we now have many remedies which,
especially for continued use, are superior to alcohol, which twenty
years ago we did not have. For the conditions or emergencies in which we
think alcohol has a value it is used when required or deemed best."

Buffalo, New York, State Hospital sent figures for six years which
include cost of alcohol used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical
preparations, which, of course, makes a very decided difference. _Per
capita_ for 1903 was 22 cents; for 1908 it was 18 cents.

Buffalo, New York, General Hospital:--"The use of alcohol as a drug in
this hospital has diminished about one-third in the past ten years, but
I wish to add in this connection that the use of all drugs has
diminished in this hospital, and to the best of my knowledge in other
institutions of a like character. The use of the microscope, and other
studies have advanced the science of medicine the same as all other
branches of learning, and other methods are coming to be used beside the
use of drugs."

Mount Sinai, New York City:--"The use of alcoholic beverages here for
medical purposes is the exception rather than the rule. The majority of
our cases are surgical cases, and in these alcoholic liquors are rarely
prescribed for any purpose whatsoever."

Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, Boston, sent figures for five years.
For 1904 the cost of alcoholic liquors was $197.69 with 3,720 patients;
for 1908, the cost was $69.82 with 4,543 patients. The _per capita_ cost
for the five years is as follows: 1904, cost .0531 cents; 1905, cost
.0474; 1906, cost .034; 1907, cost .0171; 1908, cost .0153.

In the _Boston Medical and Surgical Journal_ of April 15, 1909, Dr.
Richard C. Cabot gave a t