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Q-It has been the custom to fix it with string?
A--And with a bandage.
Q-In your opinion, would a man with an open wound like that sleeping in a place like Taipingshan be liable to absorb infection?
A-Yes.
Q-And make the wound worse?
A-Yes.
Q-Sending him out of the Gaol with an open wound is somewhat risky?
A--We have no power to detain him; we advise him to go to the hospital.
Q-You have not complained of that at all? You have not pointed out that it was a wrong system?
A-Yes.
Q-To whom?
A-To different officers in the Gaol.
Q-You have not made any official complaint on the subject?
A-No.
Q-In reference to the other case, you say the man was passed as fit on the 5th May, I think, and he received twenty-four strokes, and you say the abscesses developed two days after he had been flogged?
A-Yes.
Q-Do you think that abscess was the result of the second flogging or of the first?
A-Second.
Q-Do you not think that is rather early for an abscess to form?
A-No-two or three days. When I opened it it was not quite ripe. My experience is that the sooner it is opened the better.
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Q-What do you think is the cause of that abscess forming?
A-The blow.
Q-The blow of the second flogging ?
A-Yes.
Q-You do not think he could have absorbed any gerins from the crowded con- dition of the ward ?
A-It might be.
Q-It might have been caused by the first flogging?
A-There was only a slight abrasion of the skin. If poison had been absorbed there would have been inflammation.
Q-I simply want to know whether you think it could have been caused by the absorption of germs through the abrasion caused by the first flogging?
A-I do not think so. When he was flogged a second time the surface was not raw-when he was passed for the second flogging.
Q-Have you known any man faint?
A--I would not call it a faint; turned pale, gone off in a swoon.