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Q-Have you represented that to the Government?
A-Yes. I did mention it.
Q-In your reports you have stated that you think the hospital wards are over- crowded?
A Yes.
Q-In your opinion, if a Chinaman is under treatment in the hospital wards for an open wound, do you think that overcrowding might have something to do with the wound suppurating?
A-Certainly. Some years ago it was quite a common thing for a man to come in the morning to the hospital with a swollen face and erysipelas would set in.
Q-What is the method of treatment for the wounds?
A--Separate treatment. This man was attended by the hospital attendants.
Q-What local applications are used?
A-Lead lotion.
Q-Is lead lotion an antiseptic?
A-Lead lotion and Jeyes' fluid.
Q--Not lead lotion alone?
A-No.
Q-Do you not think it would be better to dress the wounds with some antiseptic if you think the wards are overcrowded?
A-The best thing to use is Jeyes' fluid and Condy's. I employ carbolic lotion also and some other antiseptics.
Q-Have you noticed whether abscesses form more frequently after the second flogging than after the first?
A-I have seen an abscess after six strokes.
Q-My question is, have you noticed whether abscesses form more quickly after the second than after the first flogging?
A-Yes.
Q-Because in both these cases the men had been flogged about a week or ten days previous to the second flogging, and it was only after the second flogging that the abscesses formed. You think it is more frequent after the second flogging than after the first ?
A-Yes.
Q-What is the form of certificate you give? Have you got it?
A-No. It was introduced by Major DEMPSTER; it is a small form and certifies
the number of strokes to be given.
Q-You say that occasionally you get profuse bleeding after flogging?
A-Yes.
Q-Is that the case after six strokes ?
A-No, but sometimes it leaves a cut.
Q-It is with more than six strokes that you have noticed the bleeding?
A-Yes.