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[page 934] Ques. Do you regard it as a thing that could be done with propriety, to go into the midst of the female wards of the asylum? Ans. No sir. Ordinarily I should think it was very improper Ques. Did I not understand you in inquiries addressed to Dr. Sanborn to be disposed to complain, and make one of the charges against the asylum that it was so much open to visitors, even in the common and ordinary way? Ans. No sir, not in that sense. And it you will allow me I will make that very clear to you. Ques. Whether you did or did not? Ans. I did not. It was entering other ways with the officers and going all over it and seeing the patients in their condition, some of them maniacs, and making my friend, for instance, on exhibition. That is what I meant Ques. Did you object to having the public admitted to go through with the officers in the way of visiting? Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. And because it caused the patients to be exhibited, as you have called it? Ans. Yes, sir, even when they are unprepared.