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[page 698] wrong shall be overlooked. I believe that the management of a hospitable for the insane should be worthy of public confidence and to this end open to an intelligent criticism. As one of my official duties I have endeavored to obtain all the information concerning the more advanced methods of conducting hospitals for the insane, that were valuable. The result of such inquiry taken in connection with my experience, as one of the visiting committee to out hospital 5 years and a half, has been to convince me that it does not as yet stand in the front rank in some respects. While I do not believe any abuse is sanctioned, or duty towards its unfortunate inmates intentionally neglected by its superior officers, I believe the methods of the hospital are subject to improvement, are they meet the highest comfort and best means of curability, and furthermore that these demands are imperative. The first thing in any opinion is that there should be a certainty of an abundance of water for the future. Second, that there should be a woman physician employed to have charge of the woman insane. As I have previously given you the reasons for these reformatory measures, so regarded by myself, having dissented from my associated on the board of