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[page 495] an average, are not there a large number of them- I dont mean necessarily a majority, but a large number among them, chrome and incurable cases, that have been there for years, merely put there for safe keeping? A. Yes, sir. Q. Without any expectation of cure? A. Yes, sir. Q. And every year adds to the hopeless cases? A. Yes, sir. Q. I find the admissions for 1879 were 188; and I will ask you to reckon and state to the Committee if 57 put down here as recovered in that year is not 30 percent of the whole number admitted in that year? A. The percentage varies of course in different years. I dont think there is any material difference as far as I have real hospital reports, in the percentage of recoverys [recoveries] in the various hospitals. There are some causes operating against and some for in different states. Q. My question was simply a question of mathematics. Whether the 57 cured in that year was not 30 percent of the whole number admitted in that year, 188? A. Yes, 36.