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Reroofing latrines of Royal Artillery guard-room and cells.
Reroofing with Allahabad tiles line houses Nos. 1 and 2, Royal Artillery lines.
Reroofing latrines Nos. 1 and 2, Royal Artillery lines, with new timber and
Allahabad tiles.
Reroofing passage from guard-room to cells and from cells to latrine.
Lower Burma District .—The health of the troops has been fair.
Deputy Surgeon-General Donnelly reports that the barracks at Rangoon are
well elevated above the ground, airy, cheerful, and well adapted to the nature of
the climate, being equally well protected from sun and rain.
The barracks occupied by the Royal Artillery are of older construction and
the site is not so good, but there has been ample accommodation.
The Medical Officer in charge of Station Hospital states that the urinals attached
to the Infantry barracks are too close to them and cause an unpleasant smell, while
they are too far for night use.
The hospital has been suited for requirements and its sanitation is described
as satisfactory. Drainage has not at any time been considered defective. Open
masonry drains run round each barrack block and convey the drainage into iron
pipes which carry it a considerable distance down the hill on which the barracks
are situated.
Water has been supplied from wells and has occasionally run short, necessitat-
ing its being drawn from a distance in carts. Surgeon-Major Gormley recommends
that the same system which supplies the town with water should be also extended
to cantonments and barracks.
At Thayetmyo the cells are reported to be damp owing to water lodging in
the space below the arches during the rains.
At Toungoo no quarters are provided for men of the Army Hospital
Native Corps.
Upper Burma Force — Myingyan and Mandalay Districts .—The general health
of the troops in this district has been indifferent, but at Mandalay the Deputy
Surgeon-General reports that there has been a considerable improvement in the
health of the troops compared with the previous year.
The Mandalay district consists of a low flat tract of country lying between
the Irrawady and the Shan hills. The plain is in many places below the level of
the river, the water of which is kept out by an enormous bund.
The cantonments at Mandalay occupy the site of the old enclosed city and are
about 2½ miles from the river and towards the north-east of the native town.
The .old palace is situated in the centre of cantonments. The only elevated portion
of ground in the vicinity is Mandalay hill to the north-east of the town and
within 500 yards of cantonments. This hill consists of gravel rock with a soil of
alluvial clay.
The cantonments are about 1¼ miles square and surrounded by a brick wall
banked up with mud ; outside the whole runs a moat from 100 to 150 feet wide
and from 8 to 10 feet deep. The Native houses, which formerly existed within
cantonments, have now been almost all removed.
The European Infantry barracks are placed at the north-east corner of the
cantonment; they are built of teakwood and are raised about 10 feet from the
ground. A verandah, 12 feet wide, runs round each block ; the floors are of
pounded clay, sand and gravel. The barrack buildings are arranged in parallel
rows on open ground and have double roofs with ridge ventilation. Doors,
windows, and ridge ventilators ensure a free supply of air.
The recreation rooms afford ample space.
The Artillery barracks are situated outside the palace enclosure and are
reported to be fairly satisfactory.
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