570.-At your own house?
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A.—No, there was a family living with us in the same house and they got fever We had no fever in our family at that time. We re- Very shortly after we got back to Greenmount as the
and we left to escape the fever.
mained at the Peak till October.
winter approached the fever came on and lasted in to 1887.
571. Did you have fever in any house previous to Greenmount?
A.—About eleven years ago we had an attack at Idlewild one summer.
572.-Had your children any
A.-No.
573.-None?
By Dr. Manson.
fever in 1884 or 1885?
A. One of the children, I think, suffered a little at the Peak in 1885.
574. But it was not until 1886 that the fever became serious?
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A.-It was after we went back to Greenmount in the winter of 1886, when it became very serious and alarming.
575.-But before that your family had fever?
A.--One of my children had fever as an infant on its way home when nine or ten months old and an attack of the same kind of fever on his way out again when it was
grown up.
576. Then until 1886 you would say Greenmount was a healthy house?
A. Yes.
577.-Who were the tenants before you?
A-The North China Insurance Company occupied it.
578.-Were they subject to fever do you know?
A.--I did not hear that they were. [Dr. AYRES-I don't think Mr. KENNARD DAVIES had fever the whole time he resided in Hongkong].
579. But before leaving that you had fever in 1886?
A.-Dr. EITEL and his daughter had a very serious attack in 1886. The rooms they occupied were at the West side of the house and the rooms we occupied when we went back in the winter of 1886 were on the West side. No one on the East side of the house had fever during the whole time.
By Dr. Cantlie.
580. Was that during the North-East monsoon?
A. Yes.
By Dr. Manson.
581. Your neighbours at Rheda had fever, had they not?
A.-Not in our time. We left before the fever broke out there.
582.--In 1886 there was a death there?
A. Yes, there was a death in 1886. We were at the Peak at the time.