7. Reliable information regarding the number of latrines in use in the
bazar (para. 13) ought to be obtainable without entailing much trouble or any
extra expenditure. If the statement that "the filthy fluid flows into an absorbent
cesspit, of which, it is said, there are upwards of 2,500, and nearly all this offensive
matter soaks into the ground in the immediate neighbourhood of the habitations
of the people," is approximately correct, it behoves the authorities responsible
for the sanitary condition of the Sudder Bazar to make particular enquiry and to
suggest what steps should be immediately taken to check the continued defilement
of the ground in and around the houses of the bazar. The first thing to be done
apparently is to provide suitable public latrines. The non-existence of such
conveniences not unnaturally caused the Sanitary Commissioner much astonish
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p a r a g r a p h 2 0 o f h i s r e p o r t .
8. What is brought to notice in paragraph 14 should receive immediate
and constant attention.
9. Paragraphs 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 refer to the question of drainage, which
is admitted to be faulty in the extreme and detrimental to health. As soon as
Government are in possession of the information called for in paragraph 2 of this
resolution, the drainage question will be again considered.
10. What is stated in paragraphs 20 and 21 should be brought prominently
to the notice of the Cantonment authorities, in view to some even temporary expe-
dient being adopted which would prevent the continuance of so disgusting a
state of things as the Sanitary Commissioner describes.
11. According to the opinion of the Cantonment Committee much diffi
- c u l t y w i l l b e e x p e r i e n c e d i n a b o l i s h i n g t h e f i l t h y c e s s p o o l s r e m a r k e d o n i n
paragraph 22. But if, as is stated in the remarks of the Committee, the intro--
duction of a halalcore system would reduce the objectionable features of the
present system to a minimum, the organization of a regular halalcore sys
- t e m s h o u l d b e s p e e d i l y c o n s i d e r e d . I t i s t h o u g h t t h a t b y l e v y i n g a f e e f o r
the use of private latrines, prohibiting such necessaries except in houses of the
better class, establishing public latrines of an inexpensive style on convenient
sites, and making it a condition in granting building sites that if a private latrine
is to be built, it shall be constructed according to the plan laid down by the
Cantonment authorities, much of the evil arising from the existing cesspools would
be checked.
12. What is stated in the latter clause of paragraph 22 proves that both
supervision and conservancy establishment are insufficient. Even with the admit-
ted inadequate means to cope with all that is absolutely requisite to ensure a con
-stant thorough cleaning of the bazar cesspools, the disgusting state of those notic
- e d i n t h e p a r a g r a p h a b o v e q u o t e d m i g h t h a v e b e e n p r e v e n t e d h a d m o r e a c t i v e
supervision been employed.
13. The want of dust bins noticed in paragraph 23 might be supplied without
entailing much expenditure. Their introduction generally would be found con-
venient, would tend to reduce the labour of the scavengering establishment,
and would prevent to an appreciable extent the choking or fouling of many
of the existing drains. The construction of public latrines will prevent in future
the culverts and nullahs being in the condition described in paragraph 23.
14. What is stated in paragraphs 27, 28 and 29 is eminently unsatisfactory,
apparently evidencing a want of foresight when originally constructing the
markets and an absence of strict supervision so as to ensure these places and
their surroundings being kept perfectly clean.
15. The defective arrangements noticed in paragraph 30 appears to be easily
remedied. The removal of the nightsoil carts from the neighbourhood of the
slaughter yard and the clearing out of the passage reported to be dammed up
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