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1183 A. (cont.) should think it had been progressive ever since I have been acquainted with it. When I went there all the water they had except what they hauled from the river was caught from the eaves and brought from a spring through a three inch pipe and oftentimes not water enough to fill that. When I left they were at work upon the waterworks. The ventilation was commenced before I left. I was through the halls yesterday, and in the attic, the ventilation all went up into the attic, all the pipes to ventilate went up into the attic, there was no escape unless the trap door on the roof were open, the air was very offensive up there sometimes. Yesterday the air was good as it is in this room. In point of construction our asylum was behind others, it began earlier and having begun on a system it could not very well change. Q. State how the condition of the asylum has compared when you left it in the condition you found it in when you first came into office? A. The barns were all moved, one wing was built to the hospital, the commencement of the present waterworks was made, the grounds around the hospital were laid out and ornamented. Q. What should you say as to the condition of the hospital in point to the attendants and care of the patients