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A.-I do not know. We were always changing.
271.-Then there was a great deal of sickness?
A. Yes, we were always changing. I had a great deal of trouble to keep
servants.
272.-The smells were bad sometimes?
A.-Very bad.
273. Are they bad at your present house?
A. Sometimes, but very rarely.
274.-There is no fever now?
A.—No.
By Dr. Cantlie.
275. Did you complain of that shaft that has been put up near your house?
A.-I have complained several times.
276. Could you assign any illness to that?
A.---I could not trace it.
277.—Had
you to shut your
windows on account of that smell.
A.--Yes, once or twice, but not lately.
278.-You did not live there in summer?
A.-No.
279. Did you complain of it lately?
A. I wrote officially two or three times and unofficially I complained very often.
By Dr. Manson.
280.-There is a statement in the petition, that as a matter of fact, the fever had increased pari passu with the extension of the sewer system. Is that your observation?
A.-No, I have not noticed it.
By Dr. Cantlie.
281.-But the sewers had not been extended to Rose Villas when you
A.--No, I don't think so.
By Dr. Manson.
lived there?
282.-Yet from 1881 to 1884 you changed a great many servants on account of
fever?
A.—Yes, it was chiefly among people who were out at night that the sickness was, the watchmen.
By Dr. Cantlie.
283.-You mean the watchmen about the house?
A.-Yes, our private watchmen.
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