Readers of the Spectator are not in the main alcoholics,
though one or two of them sometimes write as though they were. But everyone, however sober, must be concerned with the question of the cure of alcoholism, particularly since there are computed to be at least half a million excessive drinkers in this country. I have been reading with very great interest a small pamphlet, an abridgement of an address by Dr. H. Pullar-Strecker, which both demonstrates the curability of alcoholism and specifies the methods, and deplores the fact that there is no hospital in this country where an alcoholic can be treated under the National Health Service. In America 1,700 hospitals accept alcoholics for treatment. Here is a matter to which Captain Crookshank, the new Minister of Health, might very properly give attention.
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