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vague statement as to mental distress (the patient frequently being 
very reticent in these cases) whilst the friends are cognizant of 
as are ordinarily present when visited by a medical man. In these 
cases the facts communicated by others areof f t import 
It is necessary to be cautious in sifting the testimony as to a 
outbreaks of passion accompanied by destructive tendencies, and 
in the case of women by violent hysterical symptoms, well known 
to all experienced prison officials, are in some cases so magnified 
by those in charge of troublesome prisoners as to mislead young 
ns 
a uncommon thing to find the words , ‘ 
before.” This is very proper and necessary information for 
the “Statement of particulars” which accompanies every patient 
to exercise an even more than usual care in giving a tai 
cate. Let it be once known that a person has been under hospital 
“are, and if he gets drunk, quarrelsome, or excited, he is deemed 
by those about him as qualified for re-admission. ; 
ore a medical certificate is signed, careful physical as well 
48 mental examination should be made, and I am the more 
Xious to point out this because when a medical practitioner is 
