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that upper third? A. I didn't count the room door; I didn't understand that part of the question, if it was so out, Q. yes, That would be five? A. Yes, sir. Q. I should like to ask the question again, for I am not quite sure you understood it. Now as matter of fact I have passed over this very [illegible] you speak of 40 or 50 times, and I don't know but a hundred, and I never failed to find the door locked, as to the patients; I never knew it to be otherwise that locked. Are you quite positive those doors are left unlocked much during the day? A. I should say I have always found them so about half of the time, as near as I can now judge, without having taken special notice Q. Do the rules of the hospital require them locked or unlocked? A. I don't think they are imperative on that point. These are inner doors. Outer doors are always locked. Q. These are doors between the halls. Are not those doors which lead from the upper first into the officers quarters always locked- those two doors? A. No sir Q. How far would the patient have to go to get beyond the Past hall; that is, up in the second