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1198 Q. (cont.) compared with your own asylum? A. I did, I discovered a great difference in the management, in the appearance of the patients in the two hospitals. In passing through our institution we see a great deal of noise, patients are moving about and perhaps take hold of you, shake hands and ask questions, at St. John it was a notable feature that the patients when we entered when we visited with the superintendent rose to there feet almost without an exception and stood in line, I called the attention of the superintendent to the fact and asked him how he accounted for it, describing what we see in our institution, his reply was that he accounted for it from the fact that their people were of less nervous temperaments, he thought thanwe of the States. I replied that lost some face when it was a fact that a large percent of our patients were from the provinces, he then explained that he could not account for it without paying himself a personal compliment, that he enforced discipline among the patients and thought i was for the benefit