No. 47

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
33 of the 24th of March, on the subject of the Hospitals and Lunatic
Asylum[s] in British Columbia.

I feel confident that you will continue to give your best attention
to the improvement of the Hospitals and of the system under which they
are managed, and that you will find means, if possible, of saving the
Lunatics, fortunately so few in number, from the alternative of either
being associated with criminals in the Prison, or of passing their time,
each one in separate and solitary confinement, a treatment which must in
many cases greatly aggravate their malady.

I enclose for your consideration a Memorandum elicited by the
particulars with which you have furnished me on this subject.