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Whilst standing they are constant sources of danger to passers-by; and the
properties should be enclosed, as they otherwise become depôts of filth.
40. The streets should be named, and the width of each street in the city
should be determined upon, and marked on the map; and whenever an application
is received for building or rebuilding a house, set-backs should be most rigidly
enforced; and every effort should be made to open out the covered portion of the
road-side gutters, which should, in order to prevent the saturation of the sub
-soil, be paved with stones laid in the form of the letter U.
41. No private privies should be allowed to be built inside houses, their
erection should be discouraged as much as possible; but if permitted, their isola
-tion by an air-space of 3 feet all round should be insisted upon, and no privy trap
-doors should be allowed to open into a public street. Wherever two or more
properties adjoin, a sweeper's passage, which should be paved and which should
communicate with a drain, should be left to give access to the backs of the
privies; and I am of opinion, that as the wadgas are dangerous to the public
health, they ought to be abolished; but, before this action is taken, the municipa
-lity ought to erect a greater number of public necessaries.
42. I also think that the burial of nightsoil at the public necessaries
situated within a few yards of the Málegaon Road and at Waitagwadi is objection
-able, and ought not to be continued, as, not only is it dangerous to the health of
the lime-kiln burners and others in the neighbourhood, but it is too near the
police lines and to the officers' quarters in the adjoining military cantonment.
43. The floor of the principal places of deposit of cutchra in the town
ought to be paved, as at present, in many instances, I saw a hollow and irregular
surface from which the cutchra was not removed; and the cultivators living in
Maliwara ought not any longer to be allowed to store their household refuse close
to their houses. If they require it for agriculture they should be made to remove
it every day to their fields.
44. The indigo-dyeing manufactories are offensive, and, in my opinion,
dangerous to the public health, and they ought to be removed outside the town,
and the potters' places should be very carefully inspected and licensed, and no
license should be granted for a new place.
45. The offensive trades outside the town ought to be carried on under a
license from the municipality, and the construction of masonry-drains and the
daily removal of offensive matter from these places, should be insisted upon.
46. The beef market should, for reasons stated in a former part of the
report, be removed from its present site.
47. I was sorry to see the city walls being repaired in places; they obstruct
the ventilation in the town, and might advantageously be removed or allowed to
fall down.
48. In many vacant places prickly-pear has been allowed to grow with
the luxuriance it always exhibits, but it ought to be eradicated.
49. The wooden boxes now placed in the streets, as temporary places for
the deposit for nightsoil, ought not to be permitted. If it is impossible to do
away with them, an iron box, holding charcoal in the lid, should be substituted
for them.
50. The burning places for Hindus should be selected at some distance to
the south of the town, and a site should be chosen in the same direction for Mussul
-men and low-caste Hindu graveyards.
51. I am given to understand that a set of bye-laws to regulate offensive
and dangerous trades, the registration of births and deaths, &c., has just been