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[page 473] more freedom. They are simply placed in a room and have their freedom to go about the room as they please. The lodge system is used in nearly all the hospitals I think. Q. Is there any difference between the lodge and the other rooms of the hospital, except the term that is used in regard to it. Is there any difference in the furniture? A. O, yes; you can have but very little furniture in the lodge room. The lodge rooms there are not quite so large as the other rooms; each one has a ventilator Q. What is the furniture of a lodge room? A. Simply a bedstead and bed, as a rule. Q. The aim is to have the room as bare as possible? A. Yes, sir, as to have no objects for the insane to get hold of so that they cannot use violence to themselves or anybody else who has to go into the room. Q. I wish you would state to the Committee in regard to the heat of the lodge rooms; how they are heated and to what degree. In the first place, what is the manner of heating them? A. The system of heating is by indirect radiation. The coils are placed in