Occasionally, in places where apothecaries are accessible, physicians furnish their patients with medicines. This the pharmacist rightly regards with disfavor, as diminishing his legitimate business. The truly wise physician shuns this practice, perceiving that he cannot be as competent a pharmacist as is one who is nothing else, and furthermore, preferring to avoid the suspicion of administering medicines unnecessarily for the purpose of making a profit on them. Enlightened selfishness prompts him to encourage scientific pharmacy as a specialty. BROOKLYN VITAL STATISTICS FOR JUNE, 1888. By J. S. YOUNG, Dep. Commissioner of Health. _Data of comparison_: Population, estimated on July 1st, 1888 793,960 Inhabited houses, about 93,000 Average birth-rate per 1,000 for ten years (returns incomplete). In the month of June, 1888, there were 1,513 deaths, the rate of mortality being 23.78 in every 1,000 of the population. The number of births reported was 937 The number of marriages reported was 531 The number of still-births reported was 113 The mortality by classes and by certain of the more important diseases was as follows: _Causes_: 1. Zymotic 434 2. Constitutional 251 3. Local 644 4. Developmental 121 5. Violence 63 Measles 6 Croup 8 Diphtheria 82 Scarlet Fever 45 Typhoid Fever ——— Whooping Cough 5 Malarial Diseases 4 Diarrhœal Diseases (all ages) 244 Diarrhœal Diseases (under 5 years) 233 Phthisis 137 Bronchitis 45 Pneumonia 80 All Respiratory Diseases 149 Bright’s Diseases 35 Puerperal Diseases 17 Old Age 17 Suicide 10 Reported cases: Diphtheria 214 Scarlet Fever 255 Measles 128 Typhoid Fever ———