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DYSENTERY 
Re-examined. — One of the bulls died last year, but not with 
the same symptoms. He died from eating too many potatoes. 
Another died about a fortnight ago, and with the same symp- 
toms as the cows, and was examined by Messrs. Grieves and 
Pyatt : he had been ill since last summer. He was always in 
the field. 
Thomas Gresley is 80 years old ; has lived all his lifetime at 
the village through which this brook passes, and knows it well. 
Occupied land through which this brook passed ; but he has a 
well or spring separate from the brook, from which his cattle 
drank. The brook once contained as good water as ever was 
drunk, and supplied a great many people in the village with 
water. It is now spoiled, and not fit for man nor beast. There 
was a scum at the top, and it is black at bottom, and it smelled 
like any nuisance. Cattle did well before the starch manufac- 
tory was built. There used to be fish in the brook, but the 
starch water killed them all. 
Cross-examined. — A great many houses have been built on 
the brook. Does not believe that the filth from any of them 
runs into the brook. 
Re-examined. — The brook is very shallow. The houses are 
at some distance from the brook, and the nuisance in the water 
is above the houses as well as below. 
Edward Aspinshaw, — Was a butcher at Stapleford, and is 
88 years old. He and his father had ground by the water-course : 
the cattle drank there, and had nowhere else to drink. His cattle 
always did well. Now it is thick and bad ; he can smell it very 
easily — his nose is not hurt. He lived servant to one farmer 
11 years, and his cattle run on that ground, and had that water 
only to drink, and they did well. He has bought beasts that 
fed on that ground —they were healthy and w r ell. 
John Barton. — Lived 44 years there — knows the stream — had 
a close through which it ran. The water was very good, and the 
cattle did well. Since then there came a scum upon it, and set- 
tlings as black as mud ; and a very bad smell. Should not think 
it healthy for cattle, or for any thing else. He made a pool 
to catch water for his cattle to drink, that they might not go 
down to the water-course. Has had two colts there injured very 
much by the water. He removed them, and they got well ; but 
it was six or eight months first. 
Cross-examined. — Grazed sheep and calves principally there, 
because he thought they did not want so much water. He had 
occasionally horses, but they were in and out as occasion served ; 
but the two colts were out night and day. When they were ill 
