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[page 160] Q. Was it not due to an insufficiency of rain? A. No, sir, there was plenty of water in the river, and they could have got it. Q. Was there water in the reservoirs which supplied the hospital? A. No, sir. Q. Does that occur every year? A. What do you mean drouth? [A.] No, sir. Q. Scarcity of water due to drouth? A. No sir; I say we have been short in the wards every year. I think in 1879 there was a little shortness of water when we had to stint a little Q. Has the water been short, as a matter of fact, upon your oath, from any cause, every season you have been there? A. When I would go to the faucet and could not get it I called it short. It was not in the house. Q. Has that occurred every season you have been there? A. Yes, more or less. Q. That you testify to upon oath? A. Yes sir Q. Was that due to some little temporary difficulty with the pipes which lasted days at a time? A. A few days at a time. The summer of 1879 was the slightest was the slightest one we had.