THE Sanitarian gives the following facts respecting the death rates of those who drink liquors and those who do not. It says: Considerable discussion has taken place the past year in regard to a document published by the British Medical Association relating to the alcoholic habit and death rate of different occupations and classes. The liquor press has taken up portions of it and made an effort to show that the death rate of drinkers was not greater than of abstainers. They omit to notice the following, which will be found among the deductions of the committee of the association:— "On the whole, then, in addition to the information which we obtained from these returns as to the alcoholic habits of the inhabitants of this country, and as to the relative alcoholic habits of different occupations and classes, we may not unfairly claim to have placed upon a basis of fact the following conclusions:— "1. That habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquors beyond the most moderate amount has a distinct tendency to shorten life, the average shortening being roughly proportioned to the degree of indulgence. "2. That of men who have passed the age of twenty-five, the strictly temperate, on the average, live at least ten years longer than those who become decidedly intemperate. We have not, in these returns, the means of coming to any conclusions as to the relative duration of life of total abstainers and habitually temperate drinkers of alcoholic liquors." Life-insurance statistics, as summed up by the National Temperance Advocate, show the great benefit of total abstinence. The returns of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution of London prove conclusively the remarkably greater length of life among abstainers than among drinkers who are not drunkards. The statistics are spread over twenty-two years and afford the best proof attainable of the marked longevity of abstainers, as compared with drinkers. Drunkards being excluded altogether, the averages for the whole period in the temperance section were: Expected deaths, 3,937; actual deaths, 2,798. In the general section: Expected deaths, 6,144; actual deaths, 5,984. By which it is observable that, in the general section, including moderate drinkers, in the twenty-two years, there were only 160 less "actual" than "expected" deaths; in the temperance section, exclusive of total abstainers, there were 1,139 less "actual" than "expected" deaths in little more than half the number of policies. These figures represent facts of great significance for the consideration of the individual citizen as to his personal well-being, and for the statesman and legislator charged with the duty of legislating for the promotion of the general public welfare. The experience of the Rechabites of Great Britain, as compared with the Odd Fellows and Foresters, is one death in forty-four yearly for drinkers, and one in one hundred and forty for Rechabites.