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A.-No. If you say it is of a malarial type, I think there are conditions that would explain the presence of malaria very well. As regards the child, I think she had an illness of typhoid type although it was partly continued fever, and if so I think the proximity to the Chinese quarter might answer for it.
By the Chairman. ·
120.—Is there much turning up of ground near you for the foundation of houses?
A. Yes, they have been doing so ever since we went there.
By Dr. Cantlie.
121. Not within five hundred yards of you?
A.-No, but when we went into a new house.. Mr. COUGHTRIE's is a new house and so is another gentleman's further on, and the road is new. They have always been doing something there.
By Dr. Young.
122.--Have any of your coolies died?
A.-No, but a great many have been very ill.
123. Have any of them left your service?
A. indeed.
Yes, some have come back. Two who came back were in a very weak state
By Dr. Cantlie.
124. Could you make any suggestion with regard so sewerage or subsoil drainage?
A.-I think the district will never be free from fever until a very large system, of subsoil drainage is entered on.
By Dr. Jordan.
125. Have you noticed any accumulation of water near your house?
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A.-Not immediately near my house, but in the district there are a great many spots where water lies, and from the conformation of the ground you can see that must be so.
By Dr Cantlie.
126. The recommendation you would make then is that subsoil drainage be carried out?
A. Yes, and also cover up with turf or otherwise exposed soil. You will always find malaria anywhere where you have the conditions you have there, humid state of ground, high temperature and direct action of the air on exposed soil. In fact, if you were to put a town on it, it would probably cure the malaria altogether.
EVIDENCE OF MR. E. MACKINTOSH.
127.--Had you fevers in 1887?
A. Not personally.
By the Chairman.
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