44. Is there a concrete floor?
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By Dr. Yarr.
A.-I do not know whether to call it concrete or not. It is a mixture of decom- posed granite. I suppose it is a sort of concrete. As you have asked me the question I would certainly strongly recommend that there should be a large amount of planting of trees of a suitable kind, blue gum trees for instance. I think the ground requires subsoil drainage, and those holes you see full of water should be covered up and also the recently disturbed soil. There has been a good deal of digging in the neighbour- hood.
By Dr. Cantlie.
45. Do you think the removal of the soil has anything to do with the fever in your house?
A.-I think so certainly in my house,—with the malarial fever.
46. Do you think that the turning of the soil is likely to give rise to the fever you saw in your own household?
A. Yes the fever prior to October, after that it was not malarial.
47.-Do you think the change in the monsoon had anything to do with the change in the type of fever?
A.-I did not observe that.
48.-You say the smell came with the wind from the North-West?
A. Yes, that would be with the change in the monsoon.
By Dr. Manson.
49.—Your servants were suffering from two fevers then?
A. Yes, they suffered in the first instance from malarial fever, later it was anoma- lous.
50.-Then suppose we asked for a diagnosis of the fever in the second instance, how would you classify it?
A.It was not typhoid fever, but it was fever of a typhoid type.
51. It was a non-malarial fever?
A. Yes.
51a. But not typhoid?
A.-It was more or less on the border line of it but not quite.
52.-Then you think it was essentially a new type of fever?
A. No, I think it is a fever we meet with sometimes.
53.-Under what circumstances?
A.-Circumstances of sewer air poisoning for instance. I don't think it a new type as far as my experience goes.
54. It is not described by medical writers?
A.-No, I think I have already said in my evidence that it cannot be classed under the fever nomenclature in use by the profession, but I think it is referred to in standard works on medicine especially hygiene.