707.-Had you any fever there?
A. No, nor any of my family.
708.-Nor your servants?
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By Dr. Jordan.
A.-No.
By Dr. Cantlie.
709.-You still support the theory that the advance of the sewer up the hill brought the fever, at any rate the two came together?
A.--I am strongly of opinion that is the whole cause of fever.
710 --Are you aware that the same kind of thing has been done at any neighbour- ing places where they have had fever?
A.-I believe there is a place near Rose Villas.
711.-There used to be a stream near the Diocesan Home, have you observed since that was covered up there has been more fever there?
A. Yes.
712.-How far is your house from the mouth of the sewer?
A.--About fifty or seventy yards. I have never measured it.
EVIDENCE OF THE HON. J. M. PRICE, SURVEYOR-GENERAL.
By the Chairman.
713.-It has been said in this petition:-"It has been carefully observed by some of us, and is therefore a matter of fact, that as the water-courses in this neighbourhood were enclosed and converted into public sewers, the fever extended up the hill in a cor- responding manner and moved pari passu with the extension of the sewer." Can you give us any information as to that sewer? Is it a ventilated one or an unventilated one?
A. It is one that is very much ventilated, because it terminates in an open nullah. The Secretary requested me to bring a plan of this sewerage system and I have brought one which shows I think the two sewers mentioned in the petition. I apprehend `the first sewer referred to is that which comes up from a little above the Diocesan Home to a road below Mr. HARMAN's house, and the second one that which comes up from Third Street to Pokfulum Road below Mr. AITKIN's house.
By Dr. Young.
714.-What is the total length of that sewer from Pokfulum Road.to the Praya
wall?
A.-It does not go to the Praya wall. It is open below the road in Queen's Road. 715.-But what is the length of the enclosure?
A.-600 feet.
716. How many ventilators are there in that distance?
A.-There are two intersections with the roads. untrapped gully-hole. I think there are about nine.
At each intersection there is an [Explains on the plan.]