ii8 WILLIAM M. EDWARDS 



proper takes care of the demented, untidy and more disturbed 

 permanent residents and of the physically frail and weak. 

 The colony provides room at a minimum cost and healthy and 

 remunerative employment for able bodied chronic or conva- 

 lescent cases. While these factors are separate, they are inter- 

 dependent and patients can readily be transferred from one 

 component part to another. The whole can be readily under a 

 head for administrative purposes, and no extra financial or 

 commissary offices are required. The size to which such an 

 institution can profitably grow, depends upon the executive 

 ability of its superintendent. 



