Show When Dcilht Ociur A very general opinion li entertained by medical practllloneri and other engaged en-gaged In caring for the tick that the greatest number of death occurring In Individual allllcted wllh dlieaie take place during the hour Immediately tucccedlng midnight and preceedlng dawn The rule 10 I saId to be particular ly true In Ihoie iiifTcrlng In chronic e > hauillng diseases and deduction have been nude from their Imnmilnn which have served to regulate i the l ad I mlnlitrallon ol stImulants In auch cases It being aid II oil ounce ol brandy be needed In twentyfour houri four should be admtnlitered from two to I ito a m for then ha I vllllty In the human hu-man being at Hi lowest dth more I I deatht occur at these houri that at any other period I accepted this teaching at college lay a medical nun became I had neither the mean nor the time tp verify veri-fy or disapprove It to my own latlifac lion Yet I always doubted the cor redness ol the concluilon drawn and to letlle the doubt In my mind sInce entering on my dulci at Ihe hoipltal I have collected itatlillct which I find do 1 not agree wIth Ihlt generally accepted accept-ed Idea The figure how twcntyictcn hewer cases during the hour from sIn p 1 m to ill a m than for correipondlng twelve hour of the day Again from tutu lo i alt p m there were attly alt more death than from Iwo toils a m The total number of death in the list of acute discuses for hue oehe houri from oil p m lo ill a m Is I I < ieaa than for the correiponillng period during dur-ing the ala3 The hour from two to lit a in In this Hit ihow Illythree cases more than for Ihe correspondIng period In the afternoon Thli In nearly 4000 eaten U very illght In the chronic caiet the greatest number of deatht at any one hour wa at 4 pm lthtwo antI live p m anti tin a m closely fol lowing 11 n n u umuu 111 me acute Hit was at twelve midnight that hour 10 dreaded In Ihe lick room by altendanti and to which a good deal ot tupertlltlon attaches It Is I noticeable that the number for thIs hour li exceedingly low about half ol the average number In the chronic cases the lowest number appear at 9 a 01 From thete 15000 Case exteiUIng over a period ol twelve yean It would appear that death occurs lecmlngly without any particular prediction for any certain hour and that the number of death for each hour It very evenly proportioned coiuldcrlnir the large lumber ol cases taken and the time coy enedu |