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[page 591] breakfast time; then we urge them if they are well. By Dr. Butler: Q. Are not they compelled to? A. No compulsion about it. If there is any unusual delay they report the case to me Q. I asked Dr. Sanborn, I think in your presence. and at the same time you made the reply, if you ever gave permission to an attendant of one of those halls to put her room in which patients were, and the keys thereof, into the hands of a girl slightly insane from an insane ward? A. Never. Q. You never gave that? A. No, sir. I should reprimand the attendant who did it if I knew it. Q. Wouldn't you discharge her? A. Not necessarily. If it was a new attendant I should reprimand her and tell her not to do so again. Q. But you would not discharge her? A. No, sir, not for that one offence, if she did it ignorantly. Q. But if she did it knowing the impropriety of it? A. If I thought so I should discharge her Q. Now about this case of Sweeney; how long