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striking camp. Now, all the above indications can be carried out in any camp. There are, in addition, two courses to be followed out when occasion and locality permit —first, to move to fresh ground periodically." 156. That is absolutely incumbent if there is any trouble or disease in the camp? —Yes; and lie also says it is necessary " to pitch the tents as widely apart as possible' 157. Mr. Cray. \ Are those standing camps?— Standing camps or any other camps. Sergeant George William Yallop sworn and examined. (No. 30.) 1. Dr. Martin.] You were in charge of the hospital at Berhampore?—Yes, sir. 2. About what date?— From the Ist to the 18th June. 3. What was the largest number of patients you had there?—-A hundred and four. 4. There was no telephone communication at the hospital?— Not at first—not until about the twelfth day I was there. 5. That would be about the 12th June? —About that date. 6. Did the patients suffer any inconvenience through the absence of the telephone? —No, there was no inconvenience caused by the telephone not, being there. There was a lot of running about, of course. 7. Was there any difficulty in getting medical men ?—No, I had no difficulty in getting any Io come up. 8. Had you any urgent cases at Berhampore?—No, none requiring urgent medical attention. 9. You got Dr. Clay up one day : what case was that?— For the ease of Colley, I think; but 1 would not be certain. 10. He was sent to the Wellington Hospital on the 10th June? —Yes. 11. And he died on the 11th?—Yes. 12. Dr. Clay saw Colley?—I would not be certain of that, 13. Did Colley take suddenly ill?—Colley was in the ward all the time. 14. The Chairman.] Prom the Ist June?—As far as I can remember, he was in bed all the time I was there. 15. And were there any nursing sisters to look after him? —Yes. 16. What nurse had charge of his case? —Sister Keith was the senior nurse. 17. Where is she now?—At Heretaunga. 18. Dr. Martin.] What time did Dr. Clay see Colley?—About 9 or 9.30 in the morning. 19. Was Dr. Clay a Medical Officer or a private surgeon? — I think lie is attached to the Territorials. 20. How did you come to call in Dr. Clay?—l rang up the Health Department and asked for a doctor to be sent out, and he was sent out. 21. Why did you ring up the Health Department: that was at the time Dr. Valintine was in charge, was it? —It was in Colonel Purdy's absence in Dunedin. Mr. Salmond: Not on the 10th. 22. Dr. Martin.] Was Dr.'Purdy in charge of the patients when you rang up the Health Department : had he been visiting the patients?— Yes. 23. Had he been there the day before?—l believe he had. 24. Dr. Purdjr had been at Berhampore, as far as you remember, on the 9th June? —Yes. 25. Why did you ring up the Health Department?— Seeing that I could not get hold of a town doctor I rang up there for instructions. 26. Why did you not ring up Dr. Purdy?—He would be out at the Hutt. 27. You had not been in the habit of ringing Dr. Purdy up? 1 rang him up once or twice. 28. Why did you not ring him up in this instance? [ may not have been able to get him so early in the morning. 29. Did you try?— No. 30. Was this the first time you had rung up the Health Department?— Yes. 31. Whom did you ring up in the Health Department?— Colonel Valintine. 32. What happened then? —He said he would send out a doctor straight away. 33. What doctor had been treating Colley up to this time? —Colonel Purdy had been seeing him. 34. Colonel Purdy was not advised at this time that Colley was taken suddenly ill?— The sister said he ought to be shifted to the Wellington Hospital. 35. Then a doctor had been attending to the patient regularly, the patient suddenly gets very ill, and you do not ring up that doctor and advise him of the fact? —That is so. 36. But you get another doctor in through another Department?— Yes. 37. Then did you report this matter to Colonel Purdy later on? -It was reported to him when he came. 38. The Chairman.] He came the next day?— Yes. 39. Dr. Martin.] Dr. Purdy was not at Berhampore, as far as you remember, on the 10th? —No. 40. The sister asked you Io ring up the Health Department? -She told me that she would like a doctor to sec Colley right away. 41. She did not tell you to ring up the Health Department ?—-That, is so. 42. Did you tell Dr. Purdy that later?—l fold him that Dr. (ley had been out. 43. The Chairman.] What medical men came to inspect the patients during (he eighteen days you were there, apart from Dr. Clay and Dr. Purdy? Major Elliott, Colonel Valintine. Dr. Frengley, and later Captain Harrison paid daily visits.