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[page 346] Q. Never reported them? A. Never. I never saw any rule which had any instructions to that effect. Q. Did you know or have any idea it was your duty to report to other officers? A. No, sir, I never had any such instructions. Q. Were attendants in the habit of reporting these cases to the officers? A. Never knew one to report. Q. In your opinion these cases which you have spoken of, many of them, never really came to the knowledge of the superintendent and those immediately under him? A. Probably not Q. In your opinion, is there any hesitancy in in reporting of these cases to the proper officers? did you hesitate to do it at all? A. I never did it. I did not consider it was my business; because there was no rule in the rule book to that effect and no order from any of the officers to that effect; that is, attendants rules, not when I worked there. Q. Is it a habit to take out all the patients that are able to labor on the farm, about the building, and otherwise, to assist in every thing of which they are supposed to be capable of doing? A. Yes, I think it is. In [haying?] time