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dahs, '7 feet in width, are not enclosed, and there aro quarters for one serjeant,
consisting of 2 rooms, opening into the barrack-room on the north of the build-
ing. The barracks are double-tiled, but have only two cowl-ventilators, and, as
the roof comes down so low, there are no clerestory windows. There are 4
detached lavatories provided for the use of the occupants of the old barracks.
26.
There are 4 cook-rooms for the use of the regiment. The two on
either flank are good and well lighted from the east, but those in the centre are
very dark ; and 1 think the recommendation madeby Colonel Finch, R.E., of having
large windows let into either end wall, should be carried out. At present one end of
one cook-room (No. 63) is divided by a mat-screen and used for the prepara-
tion of coffee, for the coffee-room. There is a building close by which, if it
could be used for this purpose, would be an advantage.
27.
Kharakwásla water is laid on to these old barracks and cook-rooms,
but no means have been provided to carry off the wastage water. That for the
lavatories is advantageously used over the company's garden Lord Mark Kerr
has instituted. There were 4 privies built for the use of the regiment ; but one,
being situated just in front of the officers' quarters, has been. closed. The dry-
earth system is adopted, but, as usual, the men will not carry it out. The privies
at my inspection were, however, clean and free from odour.
28.
The married soldiers' quarters consist of 4 blocks of double-tiled build-
ings, each containing quarters for twenty families, consisting of two rooms back
to back with a broad verandah running along the west, but in the rear the
verandah has been utilized by part having been walled off so as to form a bath-room
into which Kharakwásla water is laid on. The walls in each bath-room were
observed to be very damp. The floor of the rooms are paved with stone, and
the women complain that their children catch cold from running about on them
with naked feet. The plinths at the north end are about 5 feet in height, but
they gradually diminish in height until at the south end they become level
with the ground. The cook-rooms are in pairs at the east of each block, and the
privies are behind the cook-rooms. Paved gutters run between the patcherries
and cook-rooms, which carry off the wastage water from the ablution-rooms;
these terminate in a cistern, whence the water is drawn out and made to flow
over the gardens now being formed in rear of each block. These cisterns are not
good ; for, as I saw, they become full, and the water becomes ponded back into
the gutter, which it occasionally overflows. Only one of the blocks of patcherries
has a roof gutter, and that of very bad construction, as it is much too small in
calibre and square in shape.
29.
I am informed that malarious fever clings to these patcherries, and I
am strongly of opinion that it always will do so until the whole surface occupied
by them is drained by deep subsoil drains as well as by surface drains, which
should. in all cases be laid according to the recommendations of the Army Sani-
tary Commission, which should be carried out in entirety.
30.
The cisterns should be abolished, and the wastage water, as recom-
mended for Wanowrie, should be led to a reservoir above each garden, when
through taps it could be at pleasure allowed to flow over the garden ; and at the
lowest part of this should be a drain to carry the effluent water clear
away from the vicinity of the patcherries. These quarters are not provided
with roof-ventilation. This, in my opinion, should be made.
31.
At about the distance of a furlong to the north-east of the patcher-
ries is the burial-ground, which hitherto, I had understood, was intended for the . •
exclusive burial of the bodies of European soldiers, their wives, and children ;
but now I am informed that in the Roman Catholic portion of it several Native
Christians have been buried. I think this practice should be stopped, as, other-
wise, this part of the burial-ground will be filled in more rapidly than is desirable.
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