A. Von Bunge, M. D., of Basel, Switzerland, presents indisputable evidence of the fact that alcoholism and defects of brain and nerves go hand in hand; that defective children increase proportionately to the alcoholization of fathers. These defects are epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, and St. Vitus's dance. Of the children of occasional drinkers, 2.3% are defective; of regular moderate drinkers, 4.6%. (And by regular moderate drinkers is meant those who drink daily less than two quarts of beer.) Of the children of regular heavy drinkers, 9% are defectives; whereas of the children of drunkards, 19% are defective. "In many a household, little children, even in the innocence and helplessness of babyhood, are in daily peril through the neglect, the abuse, the vileness, of drunken mothers."