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 table showing the decrease in the use of alcoholic liquors, and of other drugs in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. The following is his table: 1898 1899 1900 1901 Ale and Beer $759.00 $793.90 $1,062.00 $723.00 Wines and liquors, 1,563.00 2,209.00 1,348.00 1,063.00 --------- --------- --------- --------- Total for alcoholic drinks, $2,321.00 $3,002.00 $2,410.00 $1,786.00 Total for other medicines, $8,424.00 $10,013.00 $10,132.00 $9,168.00 Number of patients, 5,005 5,203 5,012 5,495 Cost of alcohol per patient, $0.46 $0.57 $0.48 $0.32 Cost of medicine per patient, 1.68 1.92 2.02 1.66 1902 1903 1904 1905 Ale and beer, $605.00 $338.00 $431.00 $301.00 Wines and liquors, 799.00 688.00 904.00 144.00 --------- --------- --------- ------- Total for alcoholic drinks, $1,404.00 $1,026.00 $1,335.00 $445.00