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[page 412] hospital also, I understand you? A. Yes, sir Q. For how many years? A. Two years. Q. In any other hospital? A. No, sir. Q. Speaking of the patients feelings: did the patients prefer to be strapped down to a bedstead with the sort of straps you have described rather than to be put in the lodge and allowed the free use of all his limbs? What is your experience? A. I am unable to say about that. I dont know which he would prefer Q. Which should you prefer? A. I should prefer to have my liberty Q. Then you do not consider that the adoption of the lodge system for violent patients rather than this strap system which you have described, is an inhuman change do you? A. No, sir. Q. But the reverse, do you not? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now as to the number of attendants. You say they had in the Taunton hospital where you were the same proportion of attendants to patients as in this hospital? A. Yes, sir, with the exception of when a man was sick. When a man was sick they had a man to take care of him. Q. Special man detailed to take care of him? A. Yes, sir.