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[page 552] Q. If you had had reasons to suspect you would have taken steps to investigate it A. Yes, sir. Q. You spoke of attendants staying in their rooms; rooms opening on to the halls where the patients are? A. Yes, sir By Dr. Butler: Q. After you found that it was not the custom for them to report cases of abuse, did you seek to induce them to report? A. No. Q. Did you understand that these bath-rooms were kept in a proper condition for proper uses when you were there, as you say they were improperly used? A. They were improperly used and cleaned up. Q. Precisely. But do you keep in your house a bath tub used for such purposes, and then clean it up to bathe in? A. I am too poor to have one Q. Did you ever know in any thing but an insane asylum a bath room occupied for such nameless purposes, and then cleaned up and used to bathe a man in? A. No, sir Mr. Baker: The witness stated slops from the dining-room.