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By Dr. Cantlie.
608.-There is a stable in your grounds?
A. Yes.
609. Is it drained at all?
A. Yes.
610.-Do you know where the drainage falls into?
A-No, but that side of the house is the healthy side.
By Dr. Yarr.
611.-Which side? The side your servants are on?
A.-No, the servants are on the West side and the stable is on the East and low down. No one has ever lived there. I would like to mention that the cook was for a few days ill at our place at the Peak and we got a man to take his place. This man had come straight from Australia and had not been more than two days in the Colony and he had to be sent away from the Peak very ill with fever. The servants attributed it to sleeping in the cook's bed.
612.-Did he recover?
By the Chairman.
A.-I believe he did but he never came back to me.
By Dr. Manson.
613.-How long was it after sleeping in the bed before he got the fever?
A.--Not a week.
By Dr. Cantlie.
614. The illness was the same as the cook had?
A.-I am not aware. He was very ill, very ill indeed. He went away when I was absent from the house?
615.-Had he any rash on the skin?
A.-I am not aware.
616.-Did you see him?
A.--I saw him for a minute or two, after he was ill, but I did not take of his condition, except that he appeared to be totally unfit for his work.
By Dr. Manson.
617.-Were there other people sleeping in the same room, as the cook?
any notice
A.—No, I think not. He slept by himself. I put him in the chair and he was totally unable to take up his things and his room was left entirely as he left it after he had being lying a few days incapacitated for work.
By Dr. Yarr.
618. Did you notice in your visits to the cook whether he had any rash on the skin?
A.—No, his skin looked dry and hard. He looked emaciated.
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