The efforts of our Transatlantic brethren to cure chronic drunkards by the establishment of “Inebriate Asylum,” demand our serious attention, for probably no class of persons brings so much perplexity to the readers of this journal. The “Medical Times and Gazette” (April 9th and 16th, 1870) gives an account of the labours of Dr. Albert Day in two asylums of which he has been superintendent. Dr. Day seems to be a remarkable man. The following particulars are gathered from an article in the “Atlantic Monthly,” entitled “Inebriate Asylums, and a Visit to One”:—