In the spring of 1909 a circular letter was sent to some of the best known hospitals throughout the country asking if the use of alcoholic liquors had decreased in those institutions during the past ten years. From the replies received the following statements are taken: Cook County Hospital, Chicago, sent figures for two years only, 1907, and 1908. With 28,932 patients treated in 1907, the bill for wines and liquors amounted to only $719.40. In 1908 with 31,202 patients the bill for liquors amounted to $970.65. This makes a _per capita_ expenditure for liquors for 1907 of .024 cents, and for 1908 a _per capita_ expenditure of .031 cents. The _per capita_ expenditure for liquors during the same years in Bellevue and Allied Hospitals of New York city, with from 30,000 to 40,000 patients treated was .0246 and .029. Two or three cents as the yearly _per capita_ expenditure for alcoholic liquors in the two largest hospitals in America is striking evidence that the physicians practicing there have not large faith in whisky, or other alcoholic liquors as remedial agents. Long Island, N. Y., State Hospital:--"We are not using more than half the amount of alcohol we used ten years ago." Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City:--"Our patient population has averaged nearly 4,500 the last four years, and we have had about 750 employees, many of whom are prescribed for by institution physicians. The _per capita_ cost of distilled liquors for the last fiscal year was .0273 at this hospital." Milwaukee City Hospital:--"No alcoholic liquors are used to any extent in this hospital, or prescribed by the staff. I know of no move against such use of liquors, but venture the assertion that the physicians believe they have more reliable agents at their command for most cases." Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia:--"We are now using about one-third the amount of liquor that was used in the Pennsylvania Hospital ten years ago." The Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia sent figures for the years from 1900 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."