Chapter 10

COMPARATIVE DEATH-RATES WITH AND WITHOUT THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

Fewer deaths in smallpox hospitals without alcohol--200 cases of scarlet fever without alcohol--Non-alcoholic treatment of fevers with less than 5 per cent. death-rate--Report of cases in English and Scotch hospitals--340 cases of typhus--London Lancet articles on typhoid--Mercy Hospital, Chicago--Death-rates in pneumonia and typhoid in large hospitals--Sir B. W. Richardson's report of practice 247