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and his superintendent do not coincide ; and we suspect the superintendent 

 knows most about the fact. 



Now as to attendants. " What number of keepers have the care of 

 the male paupers ?" "Five." " How long have there been five?'' 

 " For years." Again : the superintendent's account will not coincide, 

 though he labours hard to reconcile his and his master's; but that of the 

 keepers themselves contradict Mr. W. point-blank. " But convalescent 

 patients assist ?" " No patients are ever desired to do any thing but what 

 is for the benefit of their own health and the promotion of their cure." The 

 charge rests mainly upon the evidence of the convalescents themselves, and, 

 though bearing every mark of probability, can of course be insisted on only 

 so far as it is confirmed by other testimony. 



The crib-rooms. These are rooms appropriated to the pauper-patients, 

 who are in what is styled a " high" state, and also to those who are insen- 

 sible to the calls of nature, and of course require extraordinary care. When 

 asked if he knew in what manner patients were " placed" in these cribs at 

 night ? Mr. W. answered he did* If he ever saw them so placed? he 

 left that to the superintendent. If he ever actually witnessed the manner 

 in which they were placed ? Repeatedly, repeatedly he has gone to 

 them. " Within how many years?" "Less than years or months." 

 Again, the superintendent will tell a different tale. 



When denying the charges of neglect and cruelty of the effects of extra- 

 ordinary filth of the patients being washed stark-naked in winter, with 

 cold water and mops he relies for the denial on the report of the superin- 

 tendent, and the confidence he has in him, and cannot of his own personal 

 knowledge deny it ; is only sure Mr. Jennings would not use any person 

 with cruelty or hardship. He contradicts the evidence brought before the 

 Committee not from knowing himself the truth of this contradiction, but 

 because he believes Jennings's counter-statement; he gives him general 

 instructions that nothing be wanting, and relies with entire confidence on 

 his fulfilling the directions, and is willing to abide by whatever Mr. Jen- 

 nings shall state to the Committee ; he knows all the charges of mismanage- 

 ment, neglect, and cruelty made against his establishment; he has inquired 

 of Mr. Jennings about them ; Mr. Jennings denies them ; and Mr. Jen- 

 nings he believes. 



Well, but the crib-patients are confined from Saturday till Monday 

 that is, chained to one spot in their cribs ; " what is the reason ?" 

 " Because confinement is beneficial." " But why on Sundays ?" " Be- 

 cause it is a quieter day -no visitors are admitted." " Is it not for the 

 relief of the keepers ?" " Never." " But why should all of them be 

 thus chained up ? can indiscriminate confinement be a good plan ?" 

 " Indiscriminate confinement, he should think, not correct." " Was Mr. 

 W. ever at the White House on Sundays ?" " He seldom goes." 

 " Within a twelvemonth ?" " Yes ; three months, perhaps." " Did he 

 ever go into the crib-rooms on Sundays?" "He never did; he leaves 

 them to the management of Mr. Jennings/' " Does he confine his 

 ' private,' his gentlemen patients, as well as the pauper patients?" " No." 

 " Is it not extraordinary, then, that the pauper patients should thus exclu- 

 sively be so treated?" " It is under Mr. Jennings's management." Mr. 

 Warburton is then asked if he considers himself responsible for Jennings ? 

 " Perfectly so." " Did Mr. W. himself always know of this practice 

 of Sunday confinement?" " No." "Did he" till within these three 

 months ?" No." " Mr. Jennings concealed it from him ?" " Yes." 



