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1188 Q. You saw all the patients generally? A. Every patient so far as I believe . When they took them out to work in the morning, they would bring in a parcel and give us their names and we would check their names. We had a list with every name upon it, two of us would go through all the halls, one of us would carry that paper and when the name was called, the one that did not carry the paper would speak to him, shake hands with him and ask a question or two, and the one who carried the paper would check his name and pass on. It got so that we knew a great many of the old ones. Q. In that visit of 5 to 8 hours could you form much idea as to whether the patients were properly treated? A. You could not when you first began. For a year or two I in not get into it. Q. Could you tell in these visits whether everything had been done while you were gone that could be done towards curing the patient? A. I could not tell of course. At the time I examined these reports I spoke of, the number that had been cured, discharged, during the year was stated, and I looked them over very carefully with reference to that and I found that our hospital compared in that particular with other hospital very favorably, yet that would not be