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82. And what if it were wet?— They had their own regimental Medical Officers, and that was their business. 83. Y T ou had not to look after the sick-parades of those men? —No; they would act as a regiment. 84. They had their own doctors?— Yes; but, they used to use our dispensary and our dressingstation. 85. You had nothing to do with the " Trents " as regards the Ambulance except, the issue of Ambulance material and stores?— Yes, drugs. 86. Was there no waiting-tent for the " Trents " that you saw?—No, sir. 87. And if it were wet and they had to wait, it would be in the rain?— They would come into our office sometimes. A man would not wait out in the rain if there were a tent handy. 88. As regards the course taken with respect to a man wdio might feel unable to come to the sick-parade?— Their orderly-corporal would report the matter to myself or somebody else in our lines, and we would immediately send a stretcher for him. 89. He w r as not forced to walk? —Not if he were not fit to walk. 90. Who would judge whether he was not fit to walk?— The stretcher-party and the N.C.O. sent with them. I never saw a man walk for whom a stretcher-party went over. 91. You remember the establishment of the isolation camp?— Yes, sir, for the Second Reinforcements. 92. And it continued after them?—-Yes, sir. 93. And the Third and Fourth, until it was abandoned in May?— Yes. 94. Was that kept guarded?—By a policeman. 95. One policeman: what is one against so many?—We had one policeman up till the time 1 handed over to Captain Boon. I could not tell you the exact date. But if men wanted to get. out they would get out if there were twenty policemen there. 96. There was no enclosure? —They would get out of the " bird-cage" with a guard on it. 97. Your arrangements were rather primitive : were there cases of men getting out and mingling amongst the men in the camp?—No, sir; they did not go into the camp—not that we have any knowledge of. What, they could have done, and what has been done, is that they broke camp and got to Trentham Hotel, because we found whisky there. 98. Is there a hotel there?— Two miles away. 99. Mr. Ferguson.] But the whisky might have been brought in by other men who broke into the isolation camp?— Well, there were two men who got whisky from the hotel. As regards men coming from the camp, they would not go into the segregation camp, because they would get kept there for a fortnight. 100. Dr. Martin.] You say that some isolated men got out to the Trentham Hotel? —Yes, because we found whisky in the tents. 101. Was there any case of drunkenness?—No; but there was one case of a man who was not drunk when we found him, but he had evidently been drunk. 102. Had that man the measles? —No; he was a contact. 103. Did he develop the measles later?—No, sir. That is why the isolation camp was shifted—why it was done away with; because we were getting no cases from contacts in the segregation camp. We never got a case of measles from the segregation camp, but we were getting cases from the lines. 104. Mr. Ferguson.] The segregation camp was the healthiest ono to be in? —Yes, absolutely. 105. The Chairman.] This was all tents? —Yes. 106. Do you know the huts there?— Yes, sir-. 107. Have you been in them at all at night?— Not at night, sir. 108. You cannot speak from your personal experience of them?— No. 109. Have you slept in huts elsewhere?— Never in huts—always in tents. 110. We had Captain Yeates before us, and when giving evidence in regard to the examination of men on sick-parade he said that " with three, four, five, and six Medical Officers in a marquee it was absolutely impossible to differentiate as to who diagnosed the different cases, and, as a rule, one of the Medical Officers would be left to sign up all sick-reports. The result was that many men who went through might easily have been missed as being infectious cases." We have it that this is a practice in force elsewhere—for one medical man to sign up all the sickreports. Do you know of any confusion arising in that way, or of men being missed who were infectious cases? —No, sir; the only chance of confusion would be in giving the diagnosis to the clerk for him to write down. If that was done—l do not know that it was —the mistake might have taken place in regard to those cases examined by Captain Yeates, because he would not write his' own prescriptions, but would tell the clerk to write them. 111. He did not write his own but dictated his prescriptions to the clerk, and hence confusion might possibly have arisen ?—Yes. 112. You said that it was impossible for the examination-tent to be crowded? —1 would see that the doctors did not get too crowded. 113. What happened in that respect: did you frequently find it too crowded?—No, because we used to regulate them coming in. 114. You were at the door?— Yes, sir. 115. Dr. Yeates said in. his evidence that the doctor dictated the prescriptions or treatment to the orderly: did the other doctors dictate to the orderly? —No; they wrote their prescriptions. 116. With regard to the dispensary, was there any one in constant, charge of it?— Yes, a dispenser. 117. Whose duty was it to see that it was kept clean and free from dust?— The dispenser's. 118. Did you ever have complaints of the conditions in which it was kept?—No, except that after sick-parade it might be all upside down because of their being very busy.