The Government's Decision to Double Down on Methyl Alcohol

Charles Norris: 65 people came to Bellevue hospital in two days, all sickened by holiday celebrations. He says the latest round of hooch available had not cleaned up well; it remained a soup of government added impurities and methyl alcohol. The Treasury Department announced that it had decided to require that denatured alcohol be more poisonous, he writes. Most of them later were packed into the alcoholic ward at Bellevue hallucinating vomiting,. blinded by wood alcohol, bundled onto cots like so many sticks of kindling., wrote Norris.