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[page 103] farm. That is all I have to say about that. By Dr. Butler: Q. I would like to ask you a question or two. In the testimony given at the last meeting the Committee ^ will remember, and if they do not I will beg the Chairman to turn to the testimony, in reference to the doors being locked- the statement of Mr. Lakin I refer to. He stated that the inside doors, were usually kept unlocked, especially the doors that lead from the upper private of the womans side out to the officers quarters- that the doors, except the outside, were usually kept unlocked. Now I want to ask you Dr. Neal if the doors of the wards inside the halls were not usually and almost always kept locked? A. Yes, sir, they were. Q. I took Mr. Lakin over an imaginary path in the hospital, leading from ^a ladies room in the upper private down by the officers quarters out doors. Her room has a lock; the door leading from that sitting room has a locked door which leads into the dining room; the door leading out of that has a lock; the door leading out of that ward has two locks. Now I understood the statement