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extending down to the river be constituted a municipality. By this course
taxation could be at once applied to all persons residing within the above limits,
and I earnestly hope this suggestion may be carried out by Government.
54. If it is so, or in any case, I think there should be as indeed appears to
be contemplated in Section 7 of the Cantonment Act, a Health Officer appointed,
who should have under him a proper establishment to enforce the performance
of sanitary work. There is at present no systematic daily cleaning or inspection,
such as is always essential in carrying out practical sanitation.
55. The bazar is not divided as it ought to be into at least five wards, over
each of which should be a Sub-Inspector, whilst each ward should be subdivided
into sections, and over each section should be a mukadum. Each ward and each
section should have its own distinct establishment of carts, coolies and bunghies
so as to be entirely independent of any other ward, as by such an arrangement
it is possible to fix responsibility on some one individual if the section were
found dirty.
56. Taking into consideration the vast Imperial interests at stake regarding
the preservation of the health of the European soldiers quartered at Poona,
the Health Officer should, in my opinion, be a Commissioned Medical Officer
and under his orders should be placed a European who should be designated the
Chief Superintendent. This officer should be responsible for the working and
efficiency of the whole establishment. His and the Sub-Inspectors' duties
would not only consist in seeing that all privies, all cesspools as long as they
are allowed to exist should be daily cleaned, but that all surface refuse was
removed not only from the public streets but from private compounds, and that
all infringements against the sanitary clauses of the Act were reported to the
Health Officer for such action as he is allowed by law to take.
57. The cutchra should not be sold to potters. It ought to be carted
away to a greater distance and not be deposited nearer than one mile from the
petty staff and depot lines. The contract system of carts and bullocks as at
present in force is entirely wrong. The proper cart for the conveyance of town
sweepings is the Bombay tilt cart, and one such should be procured as a pattern,
so that at least 20 like it might be made.
58. The present disgusting system of having leaking open filth carts for
the conveyance of the night-soil should be at once stopped and proper iron tank
carts, Bombay pattern, should be substituted in their stead ; but they ought
not for another hour to be allowed to stand in the close proximity of the mutton
and beef slaughter houses and Commissariat lines. The night-soil carts should
be brought from stables at a distance to sites which should be paved and drained
and to which Kurruckwasla water should be laid on and a triangular iron rest,
Bombay pattern, should be put under the yoke to keep the cart level ; and the
soil when brought by the bunghies should be poured into it through an iron
funnel, and the cart should be washed before being driven out of the yard.
59. The bunghies' baskets also are not good. The Bombay pattern basket
should be introduced and iron receptacles for use in the privies themselves
should be insisted upon, but as soon as public necessaries are erected I strongly
advise that several of the existing privies should be closed.
60. It will be a difficult matter to select sites in the bazar for the night-soil
carts to stand whilst being filled, for they must not be too far from the privies.
Perhaps sites as near as possible to the undermentioned places would be as unob-
jectionable as any that can be named.
1. Sholapur bazar
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2. Madras Warra near Commissariat Lines
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