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the wastage-water from it and the cook-room are not good, as it flows out
through a spout on to the ground below, to be absorbed as best it can. The
ventilation in the barrack was good, and, in my opinion, sufficient ; but the rain is
said to beat in through the ridge-ventilator. The men say that they are obliged
to, close the doors during the night to keep out the south-west wind.
8.
The tiled barracks are of old pattern, and not so good as the corrugated
iron one in arrangement, as part of the verandahs in each of them has been
walled off to form an ablution-room; this is very objectionable. The urinals
and latrines at these barracks were also clean, though there was a slight smell.
in one; but I notice that .filth-tubs are kept at the back, where they are not
wanted, and only accumulate dirt.
9.
The married men's quarters seem to be sufficient and in good order,
except that the tiles had been badly laid in one row, as I could see daylight
through the roof. The complaint of leaking (evidence of which I saw) was
general in this patcherry.
10.
In front and rear of the barracks are soldiers' gardens,.which are very
neatly kept, and are well drained, and are in no way, in my opinion, injurious to
the health of the troops ; but the ground in and below the barracks was, to a
certain extent, swampy, and requires subsoil drainage. Nothing could be easier
than to cut trenches to let off the water, but they must be kept clean, and free.
from grass and weeds. There is a nullah on the south-east between the
barracks and the Government Gardens, into which all these intercepting surface
drains might be led. The Government Gardens are on the other side of the
nullah, and are rather close to the patcheries ; but from inquiries made could
not learn that any sickness could be attributed to them ; and as they are well
(itained, and to the leeward of the barracks, they are not, I think, a source of
danffer to the men.
11.
The road to Mhowlee, as I have said, passes between the corrugated
new barrack and the tiled ones, and as all corpses of Hindus dying in the town
are carried out by this road, the sight has a very depressing effect on the men,
who, in cholera times, fear the introduction of the disease amongst themselves.
12.
On account of one of the barracks undergoing repair, the others are, for
the time being, somewhat overcrowded.
13.
The drinking-water for the European troop's is supplied from a well
which is said to yield good water all the year round.
14.
The hospital for the European troops was originally built for the
accommodation of the sick of the Native Infantry. It is a good and well-venti-
lated building ; but the cluster of Native huts near the commissariat lines, which
are in too close proximity to it, are most objectionable, and should be removed.
15.
The health of the European troops last year at Satara has been very
good, but they have suffered very much indeed from syphilis, as, out of the small
detachment quartered here last year—of a strength of about 150 men—there were
51 admissions from venereal disease : 18 were suffering from primary syphilis, 11.
from secondary syphilis, and 22 from gonorrhoea. The Contagious Disease Act
is not in force in Satara, and the women in Godoli village are nearly all prostitutes,
and are thus a constant source of danger to the troops.
16.
The urine is removed in pukhals on bullocks from the barracks, and
the mixture of dry earth and faeces from the latrines is carted to Ghenda Mal,
on the north side of the town.
17.
On the east is a road leading from the Mhowlee Road to the Ranee's
garden. On the north-east, and opposite the barracks, a latrine has been erected
fart he nse of die native servants einilovoil
tIlem. It was in a filthy
condition.