The Editor of the Sanitary Record has done good service
in pointing out in letters in Monday's and Wednesday's Times that the outbreak of scurvy in the late Arctic Expedition was greatly owing to the neglect of the proper regulations about lime-juice for the sledging expeditions. He quotes from the journal of the Northern sledging expedition the following extract in relation to the lime-juice, given in connection with an apology for serving out such small quantities of it :—" We have only two bottles on each sledge of this excellent anti-scorbutic." Yet at this time, according to the journal, " five out of the little force of fifteen were totally prostrate with scurvy, and four others exhibiting decided symptoms of the same complaint." It is clear enough that the supply of lime-juice to the sledging expeditions was wholly insufficient.
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