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yards from the town, where it is deposited in pits 10 feet long by 7 feet broad
and 6 feet deep, dug in the moorum. There are here altogether 330 such pits.
To this place also all dead animals are removed and buried.
26. A privy tax was introduced in 1863-64, but was abolished on the 31st
July 1866, when a house-tax was substituted for it.
27. The surface conservancy is very badly performed, as there are only 13
scavengers for street sweeping, and no attempt is made to remove the cutchra
from inside private properties. There are 22 enclosed places in the town where
refuse is deposited by the inhabitants. The Municipality have no carts for the
removal of the garbage, as a contract was entered into this year by which it
was sold to the Kumbhars or Potters, who agreed to remove it daily by donkeys
to their brick kilns, which are situated as under:—
8 in Chimnapura Peth.
6 in Shukrawar „
7 in Kesarkar „
1 in Pantácha Gote
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1 in Budhwar
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1 i n G u r u w a r „
2 in Shanwar „
making a total of 26 places of removal for the refuse. Inside private properties
large heaps of manure of all kinds were seen stacked, and near some large houses
the accumulation of years appeared to be collected.
28. The number of ruinous houses attracted attention, and on inspection
they were too frequently found to have been used by persons living in the neigh
- b o u r h o o d a n d b y p a s s e r s - b y a s l a t r i n e s . N i g h t - s o i l w a s a l s o o b s e r v e d i n t h e
public streets and lanes throughout the town. There are many objectionable
hollows which collect dirt, and the prickly-pear grows whenever it is not sedu
- l o u s l y e r a d i c a t e d .
29. I was kindly shown over the Jail by Mr. Moore, who accompanied me
on several of my inspections. It has been condemned as a jail, and I believe a
new one has been sanctioned. It is required in a sanitary point of view. The
night-soil is buried at the back at a higher level than the jail. I think it should
be removed by carts. Dr. Colson, the Civil Surgeon, was also good enough to
take me over the Civil Hospital, which is not a good building, and where no pro
- v i s i o n h a s b e e n m a d e , t h o u g h c o n t e m p l a t e d , f o r t h e r e c e p t i o n o f l u n a t i c s . I t i s
too much shut in by a Mahomedan mosque in front of it, part of the out
- b u i l d i n g s b e l o n g i n g t o w h i c h p r o j e c t i n t o t h e h o s p i t a l c o m p o u n d . I a l s o
inspected the Police lines, which were clean, but which require surface drainage.
30. The town is very fairly lighted, there being 126 lamps, in which kero
-sine oil is burnt; but the streets are not watered, and I must call particular atten
- t i o n t o t h e w a y i n w h i c h t h e g u t t e r s a n d w a t e r - c o u r s e s o n t h e s i d e s o f t h e r o a d s
are obstructed by steps, &c., having been built over them, the consequence
being that these covered-in places get choked up with silt and filth, and the
water from being unable to escape by any other way flows over the road. I also
observed that these water-courses and gutters were not properly cleaned, as they
were often seen to be blocked with loose stones, pieces of rock, &c., &c.
31. The offensive trades carried on inside the town are the places of the
16 potters mentioned above, 4 of which are used for pottery work, and 23 for
tile making. All of these places are most objectionable, from the heaps of refuse
collected at each, and from the excavation of the soil in search of earth, by which
hollows are left. There are 18 lime-kilns in the town, 9 in Raviwar, and 9 in
Ramacha Gote. The 35 tanneries and Sultankhores' places where leather is
dyed, are principally located in Guruwar, and extend from near the main road
down to the nullah which divides this peth from Basappa. The Police lines are