obtain if proper supervision were exercised by those answerable for the good
order and cleanliness of the barrack-rooms." But although it must be admitted
that the habit referred to is not cleanly or decent, and by keeping a number of
the men on police duty throughout the night it might be for the time checked,
• the most common-sense view to be taken of the matter is to admit the absolute
necessity of providing suitable urinaries on the upper floors, and to see that they
are provided.
11. Arrangement should undoubtedly be made, as soon as possible, for the
• provision of a sufficient number of stone-ware troughs, as suggested by the
Sanitary Commissioner, in each room.
12. What is stated in para. 8 might be remedied under regimental arrange-
ment.
13. With a little alteration, the defects noticed in para. 9 might be reme-
died.
14. The state of the ablution rooms remarked upon in para. 10 require
notice on the part of the authorities—Brigade or Regimental.
15. The adoption of glazed iron receptacles instead of dammered iron ones
( vide para. 12) might be tried experimentally. The only doubt regarding the
former is in respect to their being liable to break.
16. The eight old pattern barracks are built of good material and are well
raised, but inconveniently planned. Access to the upper story ought to have
been arranged by constructing a staircase on the east or rear side of the barrack
instead of the clumsy masonry steps now placed in a corner of the building,
which, if freed from the stairs, would allow of an increase to the ventilation of
the whole of the rooms.
17. The recommendations of the Sanitary Commissioner for improving the
ventilation of these barrack-rooms, as detailed in para. 15, should receive early
consideration, and be carried out as soon as funds can be made available.
18. The prisoners' room attached to the quarter guard would appear to be
as faultily constructed, in respect to ventilation, as the barrack-rooms. This
should be looked to, and the suggested remedies adopted.
19. The ventilation in the bed-rooms of the married men's quarters require
improving and should be looked to, vide para. 19.
20. What is stated of the hospital is but too true. It is difficult now to
account for the building having been originally constructed as it is, when there
was ample room available to admit of each ward being so built as to have had
the full benefit of the west and south-west breezes. But the site is not a good
one, and a better could be found to the west of the present one, on ground now
occupied by private houses.
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21. So soon as funds can be made available a new hospital should be built.
22. What is stated in para. 22 regarding the officers' houses might have
been said with equal truth any time during the last thirty years. Many of these
houses with these in the Neutral, the Native Infantry, and the Ghorpuri lines
were condemned by a Special Committee, who recommended that the ground on
which they stood should be resumed by Government and well-designed suitable
houses erected in their stead. The scheme suggested some sixteen years since cost
too much to admit of its being adopted. Under the existing state of the public
finances,
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t would be idle to bring forward any scheme for the building of officers'
quarters by Government.
23. The present rules regarding house property in cantonments give suf-
ficient power to the authorities to deal with houses that are condemned and left i
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