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[page 53] Only a blanket and a straw bed. Q. Were they on or in the bed? A. We found them in the beds. Q. Crawled into the straw do you mean? A. Yes, sir. Q. And left there all night in that way? A. The night watch would come round By Mr. Morrill: Q. Those were patients who were not susceptible of better treatment? That is to say, they were not such that you could furnish beds for? A. No, sir, as I was assured by the superintendent. Q. It was absolutely necessary to give them straw? A. Yes, sir. Q. Instead of furnished beds? A. Yes, sir Q. Therefore do you or not consider it any neglect of the superintendent that those persons had straw? For, to the ordinary mind, would sound very harsh terms indeed, unless it is connected with the necessity for it? A. Whether it was a necessity which compelled those patients to be there on straw rather than comfortably in bed, I was always told when I reported any such case that they were in the class of patients that they could not give any thing better