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[page 84] is better than a large class get at home. What has that to do with it? They have the same as anybody else. They pay for good bread and ought to have it. But butter is carbon! They don't need that! It is fat-forming and heat-producing! Charcoal is carbon. A great many other things are carbon. What has that to do about it? Hasn't the taste of a patient any thing to do about those things? Shouldn't we pay a little attention to that? The first superintendent I was under the patients didn't have butter at noon. The next superintendent saw things in a different light. I do not see why they should not have butter as well as I. I thought when I first went to the institution every thing is all night. I didn't know anything about such an institution. I hadn't the means of knowing any better until a new man came in, when I soon learned that I didn't know much about a hospital. So far as my knowledge of a real hospital was concerned I might never have been in one. And it is so about any institution you visit. I have heard the talk to visiting committees about the flour and bread; that it was not necessary to have the first quality ^ and all those things. I dont