The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-25

place was good. Then for year OF
two after it was established we didnt
noted it, then it began to get worse ant
worse"
Gould you detect any foul odorsW
VERY plainly, especially in summer
I've detected it night after night. IL
was very offensive if the wind was IL
the right direction. In the meadows
before the mouth Of the sewer I've seer
filth from the sewer on the meadows
fifty or seventy-five yards from the
stream. left there by high water. Since
leaving there the unhealthy condition
of my place has continued and for that
reason the people I've had living there
have often left me.
On cross-eXamination the witness said
he went to the farm in 1886 and left
there in March. 1893. 1t was i'll 1883
and 80 that he had chills and fever
In 1890 it became common thing for
the people there to have chills and fe-
yer. He said there was swamp near
hiss place and on the place Il small
pond. This pond was drawn off in
1893.
On. redirect examination the witness
said the pond was drawn off, not on ac-
count of its unealtfulness. but because
he was annoyed by people going there to
battle
A. III. Green: II went to the Wat
son place near the rock-quarry i'll 1856
to live. This was half a mile from Cat
ling's. / remained there until 1888 and
| never had better health in my life.
Since | left there the health of my ten
ants has been bad. Some of them are
sick now-confned to the house"
The witness described the creek, the
sewer and their general condition.
TN summer when the stream is low
I've seen the water not more than six
inches deep--insufficien to carry off the
volume of sewerage"
On cross-examination he acknowledged
that if all Instructions and hindrances
to the flow of water were removed it
would help matters very much.
Were you not appointed by the Legis-
lature as member of commission to
do this very thing?"
Yes. But / couldn't clean out the
creek with that act. They didn't give
us any money"
Have you done anything whatever
toward carrying out this act?'
Nothing whatever"
Have you made any effort to have
persons obstructing the stream fined as
provided in the act?"
Il have not"
The act was put in evidence by the
attorneys for the city. A synopsis of this
law was published in yesterdays News
and Observer.
On redirect examination the witness
said he'd never heard of the act till
this morning.
At this point the court took a recess
until 2:30 O'clock for dinner.
The first witness after the recess was
James Robbins. He said
Il have farm on Walnut creek.
south of it. The odor, when the wind
is blowing from the creek, is so often
sive that one can't sit on the piazza
Since the establishment of the sewer
the farm has been very unhealthy The
health was good before this. Mr. Hol-
leman lived there and never had
chill till the sewer was put in. The
last two years Of his life the hands on
the farm We're SO sickly that he moved
to the city
On cross-examination the witness said
he thought the malaria prevalent along
the creek was caused both by the sewer
and by the clay holes and swamps.
Suppose the doctor should tell you
it was not the severn
Il wouldn't believe him.
DR.. J. a. Sexton: II practice among
the families living along Walnut creek.
There is a good deal of malaria among
them. AS bad case of malaria as I've
seen along there is at Horizons, near
the Holleman house, and two or three
hundred yards from the outlet of the
sewer. The vegetable matter that passes
through the sewer would unquestion-
ably, in its decomposition, generate ma
laria The other matter would not
cause malaria.
How do the swamps along the creek
compare TO what they We're twenty
years ago."
The swamps were there twenty years
ago. but they are better drained. The
mud pits were not there twenty years
ago"
How does the sickness in that section
compare to what it was twenty years
ago."
There is more malaria there than /
have ever known before, and of
more malignant nature. There were
last year two or three cases of hemor-
rhagic fever there. But one case was Il
mile above the sewer"
On cross-examination the witness said
he didn't think that sewerage, unmixed
with vegetable matter, would produce
He said he thought the clear