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DYSENTERY 
1824 to November 1833. He knew the course from a boy, and 
described the change in the water. While he was in Mr. Jack- 
son’s service six cows died, and two calves. They pastured by 
the water-course. He dressed (opened) all the six cows himself. 
Their coats were considerably rough, and they had become con- 
siderably thin and low. The bowels had been loose, and they 
were discoloured from the long running-out. While living they 
gave less milk than they ought to do. His next master had 
beasts pasture on the same stream ; but he railed it away, so 
that they should not be able to drink. Jackson kept his cattle 
well, amazingly well, and gave them plenty of good hay. 
Thomas Sutton, servant to Mr. Jackson twelve years. — A vast 
many of his cows died, thirteen or fourteen. Was sent by his 
master to Mr. Hall with a discharge for letting his water down 
the dyke. Two years afterwards went again with a second dis- 
charge. Went again in March last, and asked if he would be so 
kind as to come down and look at a cow that lay dead. He said 
that he would not come. He asked him to send another person ; 
he said he would not, and he did not care if they all died. 
At a corner of one of the fields, and close to the brook, and 
on the other side of it, was a tank, which the cows could get at 
with some difficulty — they used to go there and poke their head 
through some rails in order to drink of it rather than of the 
brook ; and he does not think that any water from the water- 
course could get into this tank — he has often drunk from this 
tank. 
John Whalley. — Occupied a close by the side of this water- 
course eighteen or nineteen years. As good water as ever cattle 
drunk, and they used to enjoy themselves in it. After the 
manufactory was established it became bad. Lost a yearling- 
calf there, and he removed the rest. This was three or four 
years after the establishment of the manufactory. They dwindled 
away, and had bad looseness. Same symptoms as Mr. Jackson’s. 
Made a drain to avoid the tainted water, and got pure water from 
a spring, and then his cattle did well. Often complained to 
Mr. Hall; he turned the water one way, and then another, until 
every place became full, and then it pursued its old course ; 
and Jackson’s cattle were compelled to drink from this water. 
Many yearling calves are certainly lost from purging, without 
water of this kind. 
John Turner. — His father sold the premises on which the 
manufactory stands to Mr. Hall thirteen or fourteen years since ; 
there was then no communication by which water could get into 
the Syk Dyke. It has been made since. 
William Dudmore.— Lived with plaintiff five years from 1826. 
