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By the Chairman.
619. Were there any spots of any kind?
A.-No, he got one or two doses of quinine before he left the Peak, but they did not appear to do him any good, and the third dose he refused to take.
By Dr. Jordan.
620.-How long were his things left untouched at the Peak?
A. Not a week.
621.-Did any one else sleep there besides the one who came from Australia after the cook left?
A. Yes I believe so, but the bedding and things were taken away after the cook took the fever.
622.-Was the room white washed at all after that?
A. No.
By Dr. Cantlie.
623.-You have been a long time in Hongkong?
A. Yes.
624. Do you think it peculiar the fever should come in October, November and December this year? You used to have it in the summer at all times did you not?
A. I have had very little experience of fever except what we have bad in our own house. Living in Queen's Road or near it for twenty-five years I have seen very little of fever.
625.—Suppose any one had asked you the feverish time in Hongkong, what would you have said?
A.-I would have said that in the cool weather it was free of fever.
626. You think it is exceptional now?
A. Yes.
627. Do you know how long the gully has been covered up between your house and Mr. AITKIN'S.
A.-Not a year, I think.
628. The fever came before it was covered over then? Was it covered over this time last year?
A.-No, I don't think so, but it may have been a year and a half.
629.-It is put down in the petition that the extension of fever has proceeded pari passu with the extension of the drainage?
A.-It never occurred to me the drains could have anything at all to do with the fever. I think the smells have been multiplied very much of late years from the drains. It is only during the last three or three and a half years I have observed smells from the drains at all, except a few in Queen's Road.
630. Do you think West Point is more unhealthy now than before?
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