Only those who could be kept nowhere else, and who had every right to be there: 'a small number of prisoners of the State, whose crimes could not be revealed', to whom could be added 'old men burnt out by a life of debauchery and dissipation, whose only ambition had ever been to expire in the hospital, an ambition they will almost certainly attain', and finally the insane, who had to be fitted in somewhere: 'they could vegetate in any old corner'.