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Supreme Court ruling on Dr Batty hospital case noted
Supreme Court Justice Daniel McNamee allowed bewilderment at the reasoning of Dr Mercy Batty superintendent of an institution for the mentally deficient. Batty testified patients attempted to make liquor by boiling raising were mentally defective and unsafe to be released. A garden advice column and other fragmented quips follow in a casual tone.
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