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or three iron tanks half filled with charcoal and coarse sand, I would
strongly recommend this arrangement being carried out forthwith.
Plans and estimates have been before Government for bringing into
Haidarabad a never-failing and abundant supply of good water from
the Foolaili, which is a want universally felt by all classes of the
community in town and camp ; but as the townspeople have been
called upon to bear, what they consider an undue portion of the ex-
pense, the consideration of the matter has for the present been
abandoned.
46. The jail at Shikarpur, the largest and finest in Sind, cannot be
referred to except in terms of approval, and the orderly and excellent
arrangement of everything in connection with it, speak well for its
supervision and management. A great defect, however, is to be found
in the buildings ; the ventilation is very imperfect. Side windows
exist a few feet from the ground, but in the cold whether these are
carefully closed with cumblies and articles of clothing. One small
window is situated high up at each end of every barrack, but as the
length of these buildings exceeds 100 feet, the benefit derived from
them is extremely partial. Small ventilators to shut and open at
pleasure from the outside, placed at every 12 feet under the roof,
would give a vertical impetus to the air inside, and ensure its circula
– t i o n . T h e b u i l d i n g f o r m e r l y u s e d a s t h e h o s p i t a l h a v i n g b e e n
given up owing to its unsafe condition, and one of the barracks
appropriated for the purpose, it would be very desirable that, at
least in this one, the method of ventilation I have recommended
should be sanctioned.
47. In the subsidiary jail at Bukkur, the only point I desire to
draw your attention to, as one requiring modification, is in the matter
of its conservancy. After witnessing the thoroughly scientific and
excellent arrangements in this respect as carried out in the jails at
Haidarabad and Shikarpur, the method followed in the one at Bukkur
presents an unfavourable contrast. This consists of digging trenches
in the ground not very far from the barracks of a couple of feet in
depth. These are resorted to by the prisoners, and every night
some earth is thrown in until the whole is filled up. But this is the
work of some few days, during which the nuisance continues. A
latrine of suitable size should be constructed, and the system as pur
–sued in the Shikarpur jail adopted.
48. The Umarkot jail requires more than a passing remark. As
it is sadly deficient in the matter of sleeping accommodation, I must,
to make this clear, go a little into details. There are four wards,
each with a narrow door, and one small window situated in the op
– p o s i t e w a l l . T h e c u b i c c a p a c i t y o f e a c h o f t h e s e i s , i n r o u n d n u m b e r s ,
6,480 feet, which at the Government allowance Of 648 cubic feet for
every pri soner, afford– space for onl y 10 persons ; but t wo of t hese
wards are reserved, one for females, the other for untried prisoners,
and when not required for these purposes, they are used as
general wards. On the morning of my visit, however, the female
ward was untenanted, the other had but one occupant—a male. The