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1178 A.(cont.) there were no grounds for it at all. I do not think there was ever any complaint of that kind that had any grounds for it. Q. State your observation as to the general treatment of the patients by the attendants? A. So far as any observation went and so far as I could inquire it was very good. The instructions were to take special care in the selection of attendants, and I take it it was so, and if anyone abused a patient, to turn him off. Passing along with Dr. Harlow one day he spoke with a young man and pretty soon he said that is a young man I turned off the other day for striking a patient . Q. You say the rule was where a patient was injured by an attendant wrongfully he should be discharged, did you ever know that rule to be violated? A. Not anything of that kind came to my knowledge Q. During the whole 8 years, what was your observation as to the care of the attendants over the patients? A. That they were faithful, careful, and affectionate as they could be, treated the patients kindly so far as we could observe in going there. Q. You had access to all the wards at anytime when you chose to go in? A. yes but it would not amount to anything