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A.-None.
299.Had you any eruption on your skin?
A.-No, I noticed none.
300.-Had you fever prior to 1887 and if so when?
A. In 1886.
301.-Was it of the same nature?
A. The same nature only not accompanied by nausea.
302.
Had you any fever before 1886?
A. Yes, I had it in 1880.
303.-I believe have lived here a number of years?
you
A.--Twenty-three years.
304. From 1880 to 1886 you were free?
A. Yes.
305.-Were you in the Colony all the time?
A.-I was at home for eighteen months.
306.--Since your first attack have you been residing in the same house?
A.--I went to the house when Mr. VERNON left it in 1884.
lived in the Hotel for some years.
Previous to that I
307.-Had any of the members of your household fever, in 1887?
A.-All my servants had it.
308. You are now speaking of Chinese servants?
A.—Yes, there were no Europeans but myself in the house,
309.-In 1887 had your Chinese servants fever often and at what dates ?
A.-They had fever throughout the whole year. It was worse in the cold months,
the winter time.
310. And were the attacks all of the same kind?
A. They were all of the same kind so far as I know.
311.-Then this fever was of the same kind as you have described so far as you
know?
A.-I cannot say it was the same kind as I had myself. They seemed to get
very yellow about their eyes, became emaciated and complained greatly of heat.
312. Did they complain of shivering, too?
A.—No, I cannot say they complained of shivering, they may have done so.
313.-They were in the same house?
A. They were in the coolie quarters at the back of the house.
By Dr. Manson.
314.-Had your servants fever in 1884, 1885 and 1886 as well? A. They had it from the time I went into that house in 1884.
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