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is a thing ho never supposed ho should be asked, and never took any notice 

 of it. " Can he name any one pauper?" "He really does not know 

 that he can." " Can he name any for the nine years he has superintended 

 the house?" " There are many ; but he cannot name one." " Can he 

 tell how much is expended on arrow-root and sago?" " No; there are 

 great quantities bought enough for three months at a time ; but things are 

 bought together at Apothecaries' Hall, or at Mr. Dunston's : but he can give 

 no separate account of any thing but bread and meat; he buys, perhaps, a 

 dozen things together, and enters them in a lump in the cash-book for 

 instance, ' Sundries, three or four pounds.' " " Is Mr. W. satisfied with 

 that ?" " Yes ; all sorts of things are included sometimes clothing 

 three or four, or half a dozen hats or shoes." "That is the way he 

 accounts to Mr. W, ?" " Yes." 



With respect to mental remedies. " Does he exercise his knowledge in 

 promoting the mental cure of the patients ?" " He certainly does." " In 

 what way ?" " By classing them, as well as the nature of the establish- 

 ment and the keeping them together will permit ; not allowing one in a 

 raving way to be with a melancholy one." " Is that the only attempt 

 he makes ?" " Yes, and keeping them well-bedded and cleaned, arid 

 washed and comfortable ; and, as to the other part of the curative process, 

 he leaves it to the medical man ; he takes care to administer the medicine 

 ordered." " The only point to which he turns his attention, as to cure, is 

 classification?" " Yes; attention to cleanliness and comfort." The facts, 

 therefore, come to this : Mr. W. leaves the mental care to Mr. Jennings ; 

 Mr. Jennings separates them into classes, keeps them " clean and com- 

 fortable," as he calls it ; and leaves the rest to the surgeon, who troubles 

 himself with nothing but acute diseases. And this is the process of the 

 institution for the cure of mad people ! 



When Mr. Jennings is asked about Mr. W.'s attendance whether he 

 visits twice a week ? he answers, " Yes, or his son." Mr. W. himself 

 said nothing about the son visiting in his stead. But the fact, of course, is, 

 he does not visit the establishment even twice a week. " Has Mr. Jen- 

 nings any recollection of Mr. W.'s being at the house at night ?" " No, 

 not to look round the establishment." Yet Mr. W.'s language led the 

 Committee to believe he had been there within three months of course, to 

 look over the house. When asked how Mr. W. came not to know about 

 the Sunday confinement of the paupers ? he says, he always supposed he 

 did know. What volumes does this fact speak ! If such a circumstance 

 could escape Mr. W. so many years, of how many others is he still more 

 likely to be in utter ignorance ? But, with respect to this confinement, Mr. 

 Jennings asserts the patients were, nevertheless, all taken up, and washed 

 on the Sunday ; an assertion, in which he is contradicted by the keepers, 

 whose knowledge of what is actually going on is doubtless as much supe- 

 rior to Mr. Jennings's, es his to Mr. Warburton's. 



This system of confinement notwithstanding all the alleged advantages 

 is now, it seems, abandoned abandoned in consequence of the wishes 

 of the Board of St. George's. " Then, in consequence of this wish on the 

 part of St. George's parish, you have discontinued the practice as to all 

 pauper patients?" " Yes. 1 * " Out of deference to one body of gentle- 

 men, totally unacquainted with the treatment of mental insanity, you have 

 discontinued the practice generally ?" " Yes." " Are you always so com- 

 plying as to the regulations of the house, that, if any person objects to a 



