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[page 65] whether it was proper or not, and every thing pertaining to the matter of patients, the labor of the attendants, the officers that had any thing to do with the patients. It seemed to me that the supervisor was too much of an errandboy for the Steward. He could take him out of his wards without saying any thing about it to the officers, although he said he did it with the consent of Dr. Harlow. Here all four hundred patients, two hundred on a side, and from seventeen to thirty or more in a hall left to the care of attendants, and it is the supervisors duty to see that the attendants faithfully do their duty. And if he is out of the halls so much, how can he do it? He cannot do it. It is impossible to do it. And therefore for that I objected to his power to take out of a ward the supervisor just when he chose. And that was one of the things that I meant for the medical staff to have control of, that the superintendent had that power, or else he was afraid of the steward - those were the words I believe I used before the trustees- afraid to do these things. I spoke about changing duties with the other assistant.