Show when doa death the occur A very general opinion la Is entert alred by medical practitioners and others engaged in caring for the sick that the groa greatest teat number ot of deaths occurring in individuals afflicted with disease takes place during the hours immediately succeeding midnight and prece proceeding eding dawn the rule is said to be particular ly true in those suffering in chronic exhausting hau sting diseases and deductions have been made from these impressions which aich have served to regulate the administration of stimulants in auch cases it 11 being said Q it six ounces of brandy be needed in twenty four hours tour four should be administered from two to six a tit ni for then Is vitality in the human being at its lowert and more deaths oc ur or at these hours that at any other period 1 ia I accepted this teaching at college says rays A medical min because I 1 had neither the means nor the time little to verify or disapprove it to my own lion on yet I 1 always doubted the correctness ness of the conclusions drawn and to bettle the doubts in my mind since entering on my duties at tile the hospital I 1 have collected stati statistics ks which I 1 rind find do not egret agre noth ith this hits generally accepted idea tile the figures twenty seven fewer cases during the hours front from six p tit tobina to six a tit than tor for corresponding twelve hours of tile the day again front from two to bix p tit in there were sixty six more deaths than front from two to bix a tit the total number of deaths in the list of acute diseases for tile the tac twelve 1 ve hours hour 6 front from six p m to six a in Is lens than for the corresponding period during the daj da I the hours from two to alxa six a tit m in this list show fifty three cases more than that ifor for the corresponding period in the afternoon this in nearly caseb cabes Is s ver very y blight in the chronic cases the greatest greate bt number of deaths a at t any one hour mas s nt at 4 p m with two and five p tit and six a ni closely following the lowest number in tile acute list wah at gwehe midnight that hour so BO dreaded in the sick room by attendants and to which a good deal of superstition attaches it th Is noticeable that atiat tile the number r for this hour id is exceedingly lo 10 low about liala of tile lie average number in the chronic cases the lowest number appears at 9 a tit ni 1 I rout these I 1 cases extending over ft a period of twelve years it would appear that death occurs seemingly without any particular prediction for any certain hour and that the ri timber ot of deaths for each hour Is cry evenly proportioned the large number of cases carea taken and the time covered ered |