As soon as considerable numbers are received at an institution, the more apparent becomes the need of means for classification, especially as to character. It is decidedly unwise to allow the intermingling of the young lad who has just commenced to drink, with the incorrigible or the sodden, whose every thought may lie bestial. The most practical means of classification is by the use of cottages; and it is on that plan that Minnesota’s institution has been started. If two cottages were built at Willmar we should be able to make four groups of patients with decided advantage to our inmates. Not more than forty inmates should be cared for in each cottage: and I am strongly in favor of separate rooms for sleeping-quarters, instead of dormitories. SUMMARY The essential in the treatment of the inebriate as we meet him, is upbuilding of body and character, which requires time, and in which drugs play only a small part. Compulsory abstinence is of great value if we expect to care for a majority of the inebriates. It would be wise for the State to undertake the custody, care and control of all non-criminal inebriates in one institution, provided adequate facilities for classification were available. DISCUSSION Dr. C. R. Ball (St. Paul): I have been very much interested this afternoon in this symposium on the treatment of fractures, the last word in obstetrics, and the inebriate, only it seems to me the Program Committee put the cart before the horse, and should have put the inebriate first, and the other things would naturally follow afterwards. Dr. Freeman has splendidly presented his work and results at the Willmar institution. It is a subject to which I think medical men pay too little attention. I have more and more come to look upon the inebriate as a type of nervous disease and, in the great majority of cases, a functional nervous disease. It may be classified as we classify nervous diseases. We classify in one way functional nervous diseases as to their cause,--acquired, hereditary and acquired, or wholly hereditary.