A correspondent has sent us the full report in a
local paper of the case of a Canadian soldier who died the other day from acute alcoholic poisoning. The deceased, a lad aged twenty, was a private in a Nova Scotia battalion. His battalion went to the front, but he had to remain in quarantine as " a mumps contact." Ho went one evening to a public-house with a friend. They had a bottle of stout, and then deceased took nine or ten " double-headers " of whisky. On his way back he be3ame help- less, and had to be carried home and put to bed. He never recovered consciousness, and died in the night. A soldier friend declared that he and other soldiers warned the deceased not to take so much alcohol, but he never heard the landlord warn him. The police surgeon who made the post-mortem examination declared that the chief organs of the body were perfectly normal and healthy. " He could only attribute death to acute poisoning by the absorption of alcohol"
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