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[page 482] to go about every hour to the lodges, together with the rest of the wards, and if they found any patient who was in need of clothing, to supply it? A. Yes, sir. Q. One of the things he was to go about for during the night was it? A. Yes, sir; that was one of his duties, or a part of his duties, rather. Q. Is it a fact that a patient, if put into a lodge in a paroxysm of insanity, would need clothing as he calmed down and the fit subsided, when he would not in his violence? A. Yes, sir. I think when any person is excited they do not observe the effects of cold as they do when they are quiet. Then there is another point: the patient as a rule is continually exercising when he is violent. I dont think he is so cold in his paroxysms. I think a person excited is not so liable to feel the effects of cold. It does not always follow. Of course there are a good many things to be taken into consideration; a person's amount of flesh and the food he eats, very many things. By Dr. Butler, Q. Do they require 5 or 6 degrees less heat