REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 213 
Ten Years at Gladesville. 
By F. Norton Mannine, M.D. 
[Read before the Medical Section, 5 September, 1879.] 
ARIOUS causes have heretofore, much to my regret, ‘prevented 
taking part in these professional gatherings, and coming now 
other than a listener I must ask you to regard this paper as an 
apologetic offering for past absence, and as embodying some ex- 
gained in a peculiar professional position, which it is 
e less than my duty to lay before you. 
I entered on the duties of Medical Superintendent of the 
ital for the Insane at Gladesville early in October, 1868. I 
ceased tohold that officeon August 31st, 1879, sothat my incumbency 
office extended over nearly eleven years. din. three 
: closing months of the year 1868, in which, owing to the pressing 
duties of a new office and the absence of formal records, I was 
_ tmable to tabulate results, and the first eight months of the 
current year, for which the statistical returns have not yet been 
| on some ew of the experiences I have gained. n conclusion I 
_. your permission, make some remarks on epilepsy as seen 
. “1 Institution for the insane, and upon general paralysis,—a 
Hie and complete than they might otherwise be, and which will 
“cag the gaps and siieiasition in the figures I am able to lay 
,. you. Under a system which has had some advantages 
wt hot a few drawbacks, Gladesville has been, for the whole 
a of time covered by the figures, the main receiving hospital 
ay » apathy the whole Colony, and 
pes for the insane have been collected on a gen' - 
gg T trust I may be able on some future occasion to presen 
