ALCOHOLISM is no longer an exclusively masculine vice, as is pointed out by Dr. A. Jansen in a recent article in the Blatter fur Volksgesundheitspflege, of Berlin. Dr. Jansen says that, "according to the official report for the city of New York, in the second quarter of the year 1904, there were 3,057 arrests for drunkenness among women. In a report from England for the same period we find that, in spite of all efforts to check the evil, the taste for liquor among women is increasing. In 1891, 740 women and 1,327 men died of delirium tremens; but, in 1900, there were 1,575 women and 2,063 men who died of the disease. The number of women who have thus died a drunkard's death has increased 100 per cent. This contrast is still more forcible when one thinks that the number of deaths among women in 1883 from the same cause was 397. "The report from Ireland for 1891 shows 19 deaths among women from delirium tremens; but, in 1900, there were 41, or an increase of 100 per cent. In the case of men, during the same period, the increase was from 112 to 140. In a report of the Prussian authorities for a portion of 1902, out of 6,259 male alcoholics, 1,364 were delirious, and out of 716 women, 108 had delirium tremens. "Many women have only a vague idea as to what constitutes alcoholic indulgence. The lightest beer contains 3 to 5 per cent. of alcohol; the lightest wines, 9 to 10 per cent.; the so-called invalid's wine, 12 to 16 per cent., and so on. The sweet liquors, which contain a high percentage of alcohol, are widely used by women, and, in certain sections of Germany, cognac is a favorite beverage. In addition to these drinks, women frequently use alcohol when they do not know it."