In the numbers of the Journal for January and April, 1896, I described the recent action of the Berlin authorities in placing a considerable number of the insane poor under care in private dwellings, which illustrates one of the latest ways in which this mode of providing for the insane has been organised. Having in the year 1895 revisited for the third time the well-known colony of the insane at Gheel, in Belgium, and having once in 1895 and again in 1896 visited the recently established Belgian colony at Lierneux, I now propose to describe the present position of these two colonies, which exemplify the oldest systematised method of providing for the insane in private dwellings.