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Testimony of Mrs. G.W. Quimby, sworn.
Mr. chairman and gentlemen of the committee. I ask
the privilege by virtue of the office that I hold as trustee
of making a statement. I came before this committee
once before and gave my reasons for dissenting from
my associates; of course I should not be expected to
repeat that, and I thought it proper that I might be
allowed to make this statement.
In my connection with the hospital from
the first, as one of the visiting committee and now as
trustee. I consider myself as one of the protectors of the
rights of the insane, and in this investigation this is the
leading principle governing me. As I listened to the
facts which have been revealed here, wholly unknown to
one before, it felt, as one of the trustees in whom a trust
had been reposed, and which I had taken the oath to
carry out to the best of my ability, I had become more
anxious for the interest of those unfortunate ones and
more desirous that the whole truth shall be elicited. If
any of these cases of abuse have occurred, as has been
stated here, be they ever so few in comparison to the
many which might have occurred, and as I believe,
without the knowledge of the officers, may there not be a
repetition of the same if we as guardians of these
helpless ones are not determined that not the slightest