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SECTION XX. 



WE further recommend that there shall be an institution 

 in each district for the support and relief of cripples and 

 persons afflicted with epilepsy, or other permanent disease, 

 also an infirmary, hospital and convalescent establishment, 

 and such number of dispensaries as may be necessary ; and 

 that the district shall be bound to provide for these seve- 

 ral institutions by local assessment. 



REMARKS. 



Nations, as well as individuals, eventually lose 

 the traditions of what they have been, when they 

 wander from the paths which their fathers have 

 followed. There has existed in every part of Eu- 

 rope, and in some states there still exist, asylums 

 for lunatics, deaf and dumb, impotent persons, epi- 

 leptic and convalescent patients, similar to those 

 which the Commissioners propose in the two pre- 

 ceding sections. Have they been supported by 

 rates and taxes ? Certainly not. They would not 

 have existed for any length of time, since the go- 

 vernments have not only abstained from assisting 

 them, but have confiscated the territorial property 

 upon which their existence depended. How, tben, 



