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55.-Dr. CANTLIE. I think the description Dr. LEWER gave us of the latter part of the illness, if not from sewer gas poisoning there is no technical description will answer it. What he has described is what is described in text books as what would arise from sewer gas poisoning.
A.-I think the fainting, the utter prostration, the fainting fits almost amounting to collapse.
56. That was in the case of your wife?
A. Yes.
57. But not your coolies?
A.-Well, they were very bad indeed.
58. Something of the same type?
A. Yes, in October.
59. Had they fever too?
By Dr. Manson.
A.-They had fever.
By Dr. Jordan.
60. From the fact of the fever being more prevalent among the coolies do you think the position of the coolies' house would be sufficient to account for the fever with- out any sewer gas-poisoning?
A.-Undoubtedly they were very badly placed from a sanitary point of view, down in that hole without any air.
61. Suppose there was no sewer gas-poisoning and the air was perfect, would the position of the coolies' quarters be sufficient to account for the fever they have had?
A.-I could not say. I would rather not hazard an opinion upon that.
By Dr. Cantlie.
62.-Do you think the coolies' quarters being upon the ground floor has anything to do with the fever?
A.-I have just recommended that it should be raised a storey, that the under part should be used as a kitchen and they should sleep upstairs.
64.-Why?
A.-I think their present quarters are not in a good sanitary condition. They are living on the ground floor and shut out from the air.
65. Do you think it possible malarial fever might arise from their living on the ground floor?
A.-I think it very risky to live on the ground floor.
66.- That is from your experience elsewhere?
A. Yes.
67.--Have you observed the same here?
A.-In the army we put our soldiers on the top floor and the basements we turn into stores or have them open.
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