The Manor Institution. Epsom, Some Comments on Its First Two Years

run on somewhat different lines to most others of its kind. It should be stated at the outset that we have no children of the very lowest grade, except in the school, which circumstance accounts for our being able to claim that 100 per cent, of the patients are employed usefully. It has been our ambition to extend to the boys and girls as much freedom as possible with a view to culturing them to live as near as can be the lives of normal individuals. Some of the features that appear to strike visitors are that children, or adults, go about unattended, that there are open doors and gates, no walls, etc., or other obstacles to running away, and the association and meeting of the sexes is as occuis in the