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They are too low pitched, the height duly admitting of single verandahs, and as
these are too narrow, rain is liable to drift in on the monsoon side, unless the
windows are closed.
The barracks at Belgaum are favorably reported on.
Hyderabad Subsidiary Force. —The defects noted last year still exist, that is,
want of trees and proper masonry drains around the barracks to carry off the rain
water. Young trees were, however, planted during the year. The disused water
room near main guard within entrenchment is being converted into a magazine.
The four end quarters in No. 4 family range in 2nd British Infantry lines were
converted into a temperance hall in November.
Nagpore Force —The construction of the Royal Artillery cook-house is
considered faulty. The Deputy surgeon-General states,—"it is so dark that, unless
a fire is burning, one cannot see one's way, and no notice has as yet been taken of
the representations made." The cook-house of British Infantry sergeants' mess was
remodelled, the roof of shoemakers' shop in British Infantry lines was dismantled
and reconstructed.
British Burma Division. —The barracks in this division have been favorably
reported on.
HOSPITALS.
Rangoon. —The chief sanitary improvement at this station during the year
has been the erection of a suitable station hospital. The three buildings, compris-
ing the hospital for men, were taken over and occupied in June; the fourth building,
which forms the women's hospital, was taken over in December.
The station hospital comprises the following buildings:—Four large hospital
blocks, a mortuary in rear of No. 1 block, a large kitchen, with covered way to
No. 2 or main central block, two rooms of army hospital native corps quarters
(fourteen in each), with a three-partitioned kitchen near one end, a dry earth shed
at the other and a latrine in the rear (all in rear of No. 3 block), a laundry in rear
of No. 4 block or female hospital, and a guard-room and ambulance shed at gate.
A proposed skeleton infectious shed has not yet been built, nor has a well yet
been sunk.
Bangalore Division and Ceded Districts.—All the hospitals are admirably
adapted in every way for the treatment of the sick, except the north station
hospital, Bangalore, which, having been constructed many years ago, is not up to
the modern standard either in arrangements or sanitary requirements. It consists
of a single floor only, and the different blocks are too close together.
Secunderabad.—The designation of the hospitals at this station has been
changed from the south, north and Trimulgherry station hospitals to south, central
and north, respectively. There are quarters for servants at the south station
hospital, but only a few have quarters at the central and north station hospitals.
A general female hospital of proper construction is much needed, but it will be
difficult to procure a site central enough for all.
Belgaum and Western Districts. —The new hospital at Malapuram has been in
occupation some time and, in every respect, is well adapted for the treatment of
the sick. The dining room at one end and the office at the other have each a flat
roof with a loop-holed parapet for defence. These roofs leak badly and have often
been reported on.
The Cannanore hospital now and again during the monsoon, when tents could
not be pitched, had its accommodation somewhat strained.
Report on hospital at Kamptee satisfactory.