4
11. The conservancy establishment for the removal of sweepings is as
follows :—
For the Station there are 4 road sweepers,
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Officers lines
12 do.
do.
, , R e g i m e n t a l l i n e s 16 do.
do.
and that for the removal of night-soil will be seen below
Private Halalkors
12
Public
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Regimental „
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Vaccination has been energetically carried out under the orders of Dr. Cates, the
Principal Medical Officer at Sholapur.
12. The station generally is extremely clean and well kept, although I do
not approve of the site to which all the filth of the station both cutchra and
night-soil is taken, but as this depôt is beyond Cantonment limits and I have
spoken of it in my report on the City, I do not propose to describe it here.
13. The Sudder Bazar is, in its present filthy condition, a point of danger to
the regiment, and I have recommended that it be kept cleaner and that latrine
accommodation be provided for its poorer inhabitants.
14. The Fort of Sholapur is now only used as an Arsenal and for the
storage of barrack and ordnance supplies. The entrance of water from the
Sideshwur tank into the ditch round it has been prevented by retaining walls
having been built to exclude it. There is a well outside in the ditch close to the
City on the North-east side of the Fort near the main gate called the Nag Bourie,
the water of which is drank ; but I would suggest that in case it should even
be found necessary to occupy this Fort as a place of refuge that a proper well
be dug inside into which the water of the tank would percolate.
15. I will now briefly speak of the places which, in my opinion, are really
sources from which danger to the health of the Cantonment is to be feared, and
regarding which I think immediate action is necessary.
16. The existence of the koorun before spoken of was deemed by the
Committee assembled by order of Government in 1870 to be objectionable, and
it was recommended that it should be drained and brought under dry cultivation.
I am informed that the subsoil draining of this koorun would cost about
Rs. 35,000 which is a sum which is altogether prohibitive. The soil consists of
black and red cotton earth which retains any rain falling on it. There are in-
deed some nullahs running in a South-westerly direction but these water
courses were found in different parts to have become silted up, so that they do
not act as efficient drains, and water was seen standing in one of the principal
arterial nullahs at a depth of about 12 feet below the surface level of the koo-
run. I agree in thinking that subsoil drainage is desirable, but as the Artillery
barracks have now been removed and as the commencement of the koorun is
about a mile from the nearest inhabited house, I do not advise that anything
more in this direction should, for the present, be undertaken than mere cleaning
out the silt from the existing nullahs so that they would act efficiently as drains.
This I think ought to be done and it would not cost much. But it would be
extremely desirable that a grove of quickly growing trees should be planted all
over the koorun, the roots of which will absorb the subsoil moisture and the
leaves carbonic acid.
17. A much more fertile and in my opinion a very dangerous source of
disease is to be found in the Moti Bagh Talao itself and in the condition of the
ground below it along the South-west side of the Cantonment. The tank has