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By Dr. Yarr.
821.-You have never suffered from sore throat-either you or your house hold?
A.--No, I may state I have only lived down below four months, since my return from England.
822.-And neither you nor your boys have suffered from sore throat?
A.-Not myself, and not my boys that I know of.
By Dr. Young.
823.-Do you notice any smells about that locality ?
A.--Plenty.
$24.—Always or occasionally?
A-They are worse at some times than others, but I could always find them if I wanted to.
825.—What do they arise from?
By Dr. Cantlie.
A.-Chiefly from three causes. First, from the densely populated town below, living in a very dirty way with an insufficient water supply and insufficient scavenging; secondly, from the squatter's village, which has been mentioned; and thirdly, from the drains.
By Dr. Yarr.
826. You make the squatter's village a second cause; you do not include it in the first?
A. It is an aggravation of the first, because the people there are living in a dirtier way. There is no pretence of drainage with them.
By Dr. Jordan.
827.---What would you put as the first cause?
A.-The smells one meets as one walks along the streets are sewer smells un- questionably.
828. Do you mean that is the first cause of the fever?
A. No, I don't say it is a cause at all. I think it may be a cause.
By the Chairman.
8284.--These sewer smells arise from the escape of gas through the so-called venti- lators in the streets?
A. From the so-called gully holes.
By Dr. Yarr,
829. You put down as the third cause bad drainage. Have you arranged any ideas
under any heads as to the faults of the drainage?
A. Yes. I have a good many ideas.
830. What are the chief faults?