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597.-Were you put on the main sewer do you know?
A. Yes.
598.-Was the trap near your house put there the same time your drains were changed?
A.-No, before.
599.-Previous to that time you had not been connected?
A.-No.
600.-Was it not changed again after it was made your own house drain?
A.- No. There was one connection made by order of the Government. The order was that the landlord had to connect their house drain with the main drain.
601. At the back of Greenmount there is a trap?
A. Yes, that is the end of the new connection.
602.—Until that connection was made you did not notice any fever break out at your place?
A.-No.
By Dr. Yarr.
603.-Have your servants suffered from fever?
A.-Yes.
604. Has there been much?
A.--Our servants were the first to be affected by it, before ourselves. Our bed- rooms are on the East side and the servants are on the West and they suffered much for months. Several had to go away but returned again. In the autumn of 1886 our cook went down there when we were living at the Peak. As we were going back he was sent down to look after some alterations, some carpenters' work, and he came back with a bad attack of fever. Three days after he got back he was so ill that I sent him back to Hongkong.
605.-What month was that?
By the Chairman.
A.-September. I visited him two or three times at his house in Taipingshan. I wanted to get him to the hospital but his family would not allow him to be removed. The last time I saw him he was in a dying state, and he died an hour afterwards.
By Dr. Yarr.
606. Did this fever last some time?
A.-Not more than ten days.
By Dr. Manson.
607. Was there diarrhoea?
A.—I don't know. It was not the same kind of fever the children had. He seemed not to be able to take any nourishment, He never had any fever before that.