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[page 941] superintendent of an insane hospital should have proper and competent medical skill and knowledge? Ans. No, sir, I dont. My theory is different from every body else's I think. I have a theory that an executive man of great ability might run the institution as a kind of superior better than any doctor I ever knew; but I would have plenty of medical skill and knowledge. I dont think it necessary to have it in a superintendent. I dont know of anybody any where who agrees with me. Ques. You make no objection to the present management of the institution on account of any deficiency in medical knowledge in its superintendent, because you dont think that is necessary in a superintendent? Ans. I dont make that answer, because as it is constitutional there a great deal is committed to him, there is no one in his place as a medical man, and I should think he ought to know a great deal, all that could be known Ques. I understood you you had confidence in