Again: "The bad treatment of the patients, and the very unsatisfactory treatment of the patients, are not fully known to the official inspectors. Indeed, it would appear that in some houses the instruments of restraint are systematically removed from the persons of the patients after the arrival of the sheriff at the asylum, for we find in Dr. Renton's evidence that, speaking of L---- Asylum, in which two male patients are kept constantly in restraint by means of handcuffs, he says, 'There are not many patients under restraint at L----.' And, further, in reference to Mrs. B----'s house at N----, he states, 'In Mrs. B----'s house I don't think there are many cases of restraint. There is a Miss W---- lately come, and a Miss M----. I don't think restraint is used to them.' We have ascertained, however, that these two patients were frequently restrained. These instances might be multiplied.
"_Rent is saved_ by placing patients in small houses, making them use the same rooms both as day and sleeping accommodation; they are also crowded into small airing-courts, inadequate to afford proper exercise and a proper separation of the sexes. The inmates during the winter months pass the greater part of each twenty-four hours in their bed, _whereby candle-light is saved_. In L---- Asylum, the patients are not allowed candle-light at any season.
"We cannot doubt that in many instances practices obviously wrong, and detrimental to the patients, have been adopted in licensed houses, because an increased profit would thereby be obtained by the proprietor."