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1216 A. (cont.) are well treated and kept in as good condition as could be expected from people in their condition; some of them are violent and it is difficult to keep clothing on them, but I have always found them in comfortable places and with more or less clothing on them. Q. As a practical business man, do you think it is possible to manage a community of four or five hundred people, the great bulk of them whom are insane, without having a jar or disturbance of any kind? A. I should think it would be very difficult. It has been remarkable to me that they keep things in as good condition as I find it. Q. What is your connection on the whole, as to the management of the asylum, as it has been during the last 14 months? A. I think it is well managed. I have not spent a great deal of time there, but I have been over and stopped three or four hours every time and have been through all the wards and lodges. Q. Your visits were made at irregular and unexpected times? A. There was no stated time about it, always irregular, sometimes I have been over with the hospital team. I have been over with