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ciples of hospital construction, viz., that the building should not be hurtful to
the sick, could be carried out.
22. It only remains for me to notice the officers' houses, which are situated
below the hill on which the hospital is built. They are very bad ; some of these
are barely fit for human occupation, and the Native servants' houses and latrines
are, I am informed, a source of constant annoyance and complaint. I think
these houses should be condemned. It is much to be wished that Government
would erect proper and good houses for cfficers ; even as a speculation it would
pay, and it would be a great boon to the officers, who practically now are entirely
at the mercy of the owners of the houses in which they are compelled to live.
If Government is not inclined to take this action, then, I think, it should give
the Cantonment Committee absolute power to condemn a house and to order its
demolition and its being rebuilt within a stated time, after a design to be approved
of by Government and to be kept in the Quarter-Master General's Office.
23. The Left Flank European Infantry lines derive the name they are
usually known by from the adjacent and filthy village of Ghorpuri, which, how-
ever, is not within Cantonment limits. The barracks are situated on a ridge
sloping down from the race-course, with a fall partly towards a nullah on the
north-west and partly towards the north and east. The soil on which the
barracks stand is composed of hard moorum ; but the hospital and married sol-
diers' quarters are, for the most part, on black cotton soil, and are on a lower
elevation than the barracks ; whilst the officers' quarters are also on black cotton
soil, which overlies the moorum between the barracks and the large water-course,
called Bhyroba's Nullah, which forms the eastern boundary of this portion of
the Cantonment. The barracks are separated by the road and part of the
general parade-ground from the Tent Lascar and Native Infantry Lines, the
former of which approach within 250 yards of the barracks, which are 24 in
number, 12 of them being called " the new pattern," though they must have been
built for upwards of thirty years, while the remaining 12 are of a very much older
construction.
24. The barracks face the west, and are built in 4 parallel lines, there being
5 of the new-pattern barracks in the north-westerly row, 6 in the 2nd line,
1 of the new pattern, and 6 of the old pattern in the 3rd row, and 6 of the
old pattern in the 4th line, There is a space of 125 feet between adjacent bar-
racks, but only 75 feet between the ends of the barracks in opposite lines.
Each set of barracks is extremely faulty in design and construction. The newer
barracks are double-tiled buildings, with 6 cowl-ventilators in the roof and 11
clerestory windows on each side and 2 at either end. The height of the plinths
varies according to the ground, but is only of an average height of about 2 1 / 2
f e e t .
The inside of the barrack-room is of the following dimensions :-100' x 24' x 19',
and by scale authorized to date will accommodate 27 men. At each end are two
rooms for serjeants, and a verandah, 12 1/2 feet broad, runs round the building ; but
this on the north and south sides is enclosed, and in eleven of the 12 barracks
on the north-east corner there is an ablution-room, which projects slightly from
the verandah. The centre of the north and south verandahs form the approach
to the serjeants' quarters. The barracks are paved with stone, and drains have
been left underneath the floor to carry off the dirty water, but they are com-
plained of as being only receptacles for filth. The verandah on the west is shut
in by a dwarf wall, from which venetians run up to the post-plate. The inner
wall has two doors leading into the verandah, and eleven windows to which shut-
ters are fixed. The dead wall, shutting off the serjeants' rooms, impedes the per-
flation of air. There are no roof-gutters. The urinals are in a detached build-
ing at the south-east corner of each barrack. The dammered urine tubs in
them are offensive. Kharak-waisla water is laid on to each barrack.
25. The old barracks are smaller, being 97' x 24', but only 12 feet in height.
They will accommodate, according to scale, 26 men. The average height of the
plinth is about 2 feet, but some are almost level with the ground. The veran,