Dr. Norman Kerr has made a remarkable statement before the Harveian Society of London in relation to deaths from intemperance. Having wholly doubted the assertion that 60,000 drunkards die annually in Great Britain, he began investigations in order to demonstrate the contrary. "I had not long," he confessed, "pursued this line of inquiry before it was made clear to me that there was little if any exaggeration in these temperance statistics, and, when asked to present the final results of my investigation to the last Social Science Congress, I was compelled to admit that at least 120,000 of our population annually lost their lives through alcoholic excess, 40,500 dying from their own intemperance, and 79,500 from accident, violence, poverty, or disease arising from the intemperance of others."