Patients Maltreated

Montpelier, Vt., Nov. 25.- The special committee which was appointed some time ago to investígate the management of the state institutions for the insane at Waterbury, has made its report to the iegislature. It severely scores the state supervisors of the insane, Dr. W. H. Giddings, superintendent of the asylum and others. The report says the food furnished was insufficient in quantity and inferior in quality. The report flnds that Dr. Giddings himself strapped and choked patients. It further finds that patients were kept in a nude eondition in rooms barren of furniture and having cement floors. These patients were allowed no rugs, and the rooms, the report charges, were unheated in cold weather.