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Boards of Health in many cities and states have also published the warning issued by the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness.

A law has been passed in Sweden requiring that wood alcohol be colored so that it can instantly be distinguished from grain or ethyl alcohol.

Further steps are being considered in the United States. It is, however, evident that education must supplement every other effort made if (missing text) National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness asking why crude wood alcohol cannot be left in its original state so that its nauseating taste and repellent odor may prohibit the possibility of its being used as a beverage. Unfortunately, refined wood alcohol is required in practically every line of manufacture for which the product is employed.

The above report is but preliminary; the Committee is continuing its investigation and will give a complete synopsis in the next issue of the NEWS LETTER.