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[page 678] Ques. Has it not happened sometimes that no patient in your asylum has been to ride for three weeks. Ans. Possibly. Ques. Last Monday what else did you do in the way of amusement for them. Ans. Not a great deal except that we have games; we have books for them, have a library of a thousand volumes; we have three or four hundred newspapers carried to the wards every week. Ques. To the best of your judgment on Monday week, how many patients took out books to read. Ans. I could not tell, there may be 40 or 50 of them males and females have books to read. Ques. So the library open every day. Ans. No sir. They do go there oftener than once a week if they wish to. They are allowed to take one book a week. Ques. How many patients do you think Monday week sat down quietly and read, a dozen of them. Ans. May be and may be not. Ques. So no the theory now generally accepted that it is better for insane patients in general to be occupied than to be unoccupied. Ans. Decidedly. Our greatest study is to find something for them to do, especially in the winter. Ques. If they are inclined to be idle, dumpy and listless, it is your duty as head of the hospital to see that they are occupied in some way, is it not.