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Dr. CANTLIE.—I should think it would be very detrimental to have that smell about. I know Mrs. and the Misses HAZELAND have complained of that time after time. You are not so much in the house as they are.
[Witness.--No, I leave in the morning and don't come back till evening.]
By Dr. Jordan.
510. You don't suffer from ulcerated throat now?
A.-No, not now.
EVIDENCE OF Mr. C. J. BATEMAN.
By the Chairman.
511.-Had you fever in 1887 ?
A.-I have not had fever at all since I have been in Hongkong.
512-Had any of your people fever in 1887?
A.—I went to the house where I live now last April, and from April to last De- cember I had in the house nine boarders. I don't think during that time these nine boys sat down to breakfast together, one or more were down with fever. In November, my wife, my two daughters and a little girl who lives with us were all down with fever.
513.-As far as you know were the attacks all of the same nature?
character.
A.-No they were not the same. In the case of the pupils the fever was of this A boy would be seized with shivering, sometimes at the College, I would send him home and give him quinine, and then would come on the hot stage and next day he would be all right. In the case of my wife, the first attack of fever was similar to that, then it developed into a kind of rash and then that was followed by a more severe attack of bilious remittent fever. In the case of my eldest daughter the fever had the same character so far as the rash was concerned.
514.-Who attended them?
A. Dr. CANTLIE attended my wife and my daughters.
515.-Was there any diarrhoea during the fever?
A.—So far as I know, there was not, but there was a great deal of vomiting.
516. Did they suffer from fever at all prior to 1887?
A.-When we were living in the College, we had two or three cases of fever
among the pupils.
517. The same pupils?
A. Yes, the same pupils.
By Dr. Cantlie.
518. Where did you live before?
A. At St. Paul's College.
519.—And did your wife or boys have fever there?
A.—I think two of the boys had it.