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REPORT ON THE BARRACKS OCCUPIED BY EUROPEAN TROOPS AT POONA.
INSPECTED IN OCTOBER 1876.
In submitting this section of the Report on the Cantonment of Poona I
shall only refer to those points which I think should be brought to notice, as the
barracks have often before been reported on by previous Sanitary Commissioners.
2. The Right Flank Lines at Wanowrie were, at the date of my inspection,
occupied by the Head-Quarter Wing of the 2-15th Regiment, which is of the fol-
lowing strength:—
Officers,
Serjeants.
Corporals.
Drummers.
Privates.
Total.
34
39
40
17
796
926
The Wanowrie barracks consist of 6 new-pattern and 8 old-pattern barracks.
They are built on the highest ground in the Cantonment, and the natural drainage
from them is very good, as there is a good fall to the north-west, and the ground
on which they stand is at all seasons stated to be dry.
3. The new-pattern 6 barracks, facing north-west, are upper-storied, and
the following is the description return of them:—
Building.
N u m b e r .
N u m b e r o f S t o - r i e s .
A s p e c t .
Dimensions.
Total
super-
ficial
Area.
Total
Cubic
Space.
Superfi-
cial Area
per Man.
Cubic
Space
per Man
By Scale
anther-
ized to
dete will
accorn-
modate.
L e n g t h .
B r e a d t h .
H e i g h t .
New Barrack,
Upper-
storied.
1 1
U. N. W. 174
24
21½
4,176 87,696
94
1,993
4 6
L.
„
171½ 23½
17
4,030 68,510
93
1,593
44
1 2
U.
166
24
21
3 984 83 664
97
2,040
44
L.
1635
23½
17
3,842 65,314
93
1,593
42
1 3 U.
„
144
24
21
3,456 72,576
108
2,268
3 8
L.
, ,
141½ 23½ 17
3,325 56,525
103
1,766
36
14
u
, , 144 24 21
3,456 72,576
104
2,199
3 8
L
, , 141½ 23½ 17
3,325 56,525
107
1,823
36
1 5 U.
„
144
24
21
3,456 72,576
93
1,961
3 8
L.
„
141½ 23½ 17
3,325 56,525
89
1,527
36
16 U.
„
144
24
21
3,456 72,576
93
1,961
3 8
L.
„
141½ 23½ 17
3,325 56,525
92
1,570
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They are, as will be seen by the accompanying plan, on the left flank of the
lines. Four of them are built in pairs, one alongside the other, the two in t h e
rear being separated from the pair in front by a distance of 500 feet. The
remaining two are in echelon, 200 feet intervening being the end of adjacent
barracks.
4. The ground-floor is raised on a plinth of 3 feet; but, contrary—I believe
— t o t h e o r i g i n a l d e s i g n , i t i s u s e d a s a n a b o d e f o r t h e m e n , a n d t h u s d o e s a w a y
with the intention of allowing the British soldier in India only to sleep in upper-
storied barracks. The ventilation of the rooms on the ground-floor is not perfect,
as there was a close smell observed on entering them in the early morning. The
doors are shut by the men during the night, and thus the only means of ventila-
tion left is through the revolving windows and the small openings above each
door, and by the foul-air shafts led up to the roof. The panels of the doors
should, in my opinion, have fixed louvres fitted, so that the men could not have
the power of shutting them; and the revolving windows should be fixed open, as
they were invariably found to be shut.
5. On the upper floor the serjeants' quarters have no cook-room, and the
cooking is sometimes performed, I was told, in the bath-room, which projects from
it The pipe from this bath-room, by which the dirty water escapes, is led straight