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1177 A. (cont.) came into possession of all the reports I could get from all of the country. Q. State in what condition you found the hospital, as to the treatment and care of the patients, during these 8 years of service? A. I always took pains and intended to find out whether there were any abuses of the patients, and as far as I could to understand about the internal workings of the institution. I do not remember that I ever found any case of abuse of a patient. I recollect one case where one of the patients, a large powerful man, a troublesome man got into a quarrel with another patient, I knew his family well. I think I was put onto a committee to investigate his case and did., and I found in that case he was the aggressor. I was there at another time and a patient made complaint that he was struck by an attendant on the arm, his arm was hot and swollen, and he rolled up his sleeve for me to look at it, I did and could discover nothing of it. He said he struck him with a club,I said where is this club, he could find no club. Pretty soon another patient whom I know well and was sane generally said the attendant did not strike him. I found that by times his arm was hot and swollen and he thought the attendant struck him and it was not so. I investigated it, found