a neglected state, but the difficulty is to induce landlords to rebuild unless at
very much enhanced rents.
24. The Ghorpuri barracks are about to be improved and additional accom-
modation built. When the project was last before Government, the remarks and
suggestions of the Sanitary Commissioner were duly noted and much that he
• suggested adopted.
25. It would doubtless improve the whole site if the rough subsoil drainage
were carried out. But drainage of that class should be general throughout the
cantonment. Even to carry it out partially would involve an outlay for which no
provision can, for some time, be made. If funds can be obtained to cover the cost
of even a partial draining (subsoil), it would perhaps be better to commence with
the site occupied by the married men's quarters and the hospital.
26. Steps should be taken for closing the burial ground mentioned in para.
31, if not already done. When the new burial ground near the Shohápur bridge
is opened, no burials ought to be allowed in any other part of the cantonment.
27. Orders have already been issued for improving the accommodation, the
furniture and ventilation of the small chapel at Ghorpuri.
28. What is stated in para. 33 regarding the hospital should be considered,
and report submitted as to the best means of improving what is admitted to be
a badly-designed and inconveniently-arranged set of buildings.
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30. With reference to what is stated by the Sanitary Commissioner in
para. 42 of his report, it may be remarked that the Ghorpuri range of barracks
would probably be abandoned if better barracks on a more eligible site were avail--
able. But as not only now but for some time to come it will be impossible to
obtain a grant sufficiently large to cover the cost of building a complete set of
barracks on a new site, and as the existing site is capable of being rendered
healthy, the abandonment of the present range of barracks cannot, at all events
for the present, be considered.
31. Government in their Resolution No. 3027, dated 13th July 1877, have
dealt with the question of additional barrack accommodation, and have also
touched upon certain suggested improvements to the existing quarters. Nothing
further therefore need be said on the subject of paras. 43 to 48, inclusive.
32. The gravest drawback to the Ghorpuri lines is that connected with
the site occupied by the officers' houses. The men's quarters stand on a ridge of
clean hard soil not altogether deficient in natural drainage, but the ground occu-
- p i e d b y t h e o f f i c e r s ' q u a r t e r s l i e s t o l e e w a r d o f t h i s r i d g e , a n d c o n s i s t s o f d e e p
black soil, which is proverbially bad as a building site; added to this the majority
of the houses are of an inferior class, insufficiently raised, the area enclosed in
each compound being as insufficiently drained.
33. Some years since the building of quarters for officers on the south flank
and left flank of the barracks was contemplated, but the want of funds necessitated
the postponment of any action in the matter. The additional barracks about to
be built will occupy about the best site that could have been given for officers'
quarters, and it would be now difficult to obtain a suitable piece of ground within
a convenient distance of the barracks for the officers' houses, without building
over that immediately in front of the barracks.
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34. Much may undoubtedly be done to improve the existing site by increas-
- e d d r a i n a g e , a n d w h e n e v e r f u n d s c a n b e m a d e a v a i l a b l e , t h e w o r k s h o u l d b e t a k e n
in hand.
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