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Testimony of Dr. E.C. Neal
By Mr. Fall

Ques. What do you understand to be the primary object
of an insane asylum, to cure the patients or keep them.
Ans. There are two objects; some hospitals do both cure and
keep. The hospital across the river is used both as a hospital
and as an asylum, it has a double purpose.
Ques. The policy of an asylum should be to cure the patients
as fast as possible and send them home. Ans. Yes sir.
Ques. While you were connected with the hospital do you
think it did all that an asylum could do for the
cure of the patients. Ans. I do not think it did.
Ques. Do you think the policy of the asylum was as 
progressive as it should be. Ans. I do not think it was
I do not think there was sufficient care and
attention given to the patients.
Ques. Do you think that the discipline over the attendants
was as strict as it might have been. Ans. I think
they understood from my testimony before that I did
not think there was much discipline there.
Ques. Do you think if more strict discipline had been
pursued within the last 15 or 20 years, that there
would have been less abuses. Ans. I do.
Ques. Do you think if a different superintendent, a 
man of more progressive ideas, a man of larger