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front of it, and another site should be chosen for one or other of these necessary
buildings. The covered drains leading into the jail garden were found to be
choked, and the solitary cells are entirely unfit for the incarceration of human
beings. These are built in rows separated from each other by a distance of
3 feet, and the outer row is within 6 feet of the boundary wall, which is about
18 feet high. There is consequently no ventilation. If these places cannot be
removed, as in my opinion they ought to be, to a more open site, no delay should
take place in fitting the roofs with a roof ventilator and in piercing the walls on the
four sides both above and below ; but they are not proper places to put men into, and
I hope they will be abolished. The drinking water supply for the jail and hospi-
tal is derived from a deep well in the jail garden, which is said to yield excellent
water, but the ground above this well and immediately behind the jail and civil
hospital and close to a public road, which separates it from the houses of the
town, has been used as a place where the night-soil of the jail has been buried.
There was no smell perceivable, but I should fear that some of the night-soil
might find its way into the well, and, in my opinion, it is too close to the habita-
tions of the people in the town for this practice to be continued with safety.
24. The civil hospital is a thatched building without roof ventilation.
This, I think, is required. There is a female detached ward and a ward for the
police distinct from the rest, and between the police ward and the main buildings
are six cells for the custody of lunatics. These cells were not occupied. The com-
pound is surrounded by a prickly-pear hedge which requires cutting. There
were only ten males in the main building, five of whom had cots provided for their
use, but the remainder were lying on carpets spread on the mud-floor:
25. The Sudder Bazaar must be considered by itself, as it lies about a mile
to the south-east of the town. It is situated on rising ground, and the road
from the Collector's bungalow to the Post Office passes across an old earthen
embankment, which local tradition states was the band of a tank which formerly
supplied the town, but which was demolished by the order of the Emperor
Aurungzib who ordered a garden which he named Nao Bagth to be planted there.
It is now covered by a plantation of babul trees. The embankment passed across
the two nullahs, and water is still found in wells in their course. The Sudder
Bazaar contains 1,357 houses, in which 6,617 people are said to reside ; there are
also said to be about 1,000 privies attached to the houses. Those that I saw were
in a most filthy condition, as there were no baskets, and the lanes and neighbour-
ing places had been defiled. The distillery is situated in the Sudder Bazaar,
and its condition was filthier than I can adequately describe, and the stench from
it was very bad. There are two wells which are said to yield good water. The
Kassie Bouri is said to be supplied through an aqueduct, but I could not obtain
certain information on this point. It, like all wells from which drinking water
is drawn, should be covered, and round the parapet wall should be fitted
wheels with iron chains and bucket, and the ground below it should be paved
and provision made for carrying off the wastage water to a drain. It is
now allowed to form an offensive pool on the open ground. The beef slaughter-
house, with its beef market at its back, is situated on the outskirts of the bazaar
on the east. It was clean, but the cesspool at the back is objectionable. The
vegetable market is in the middle of the bazaar and consists of a building, the
roof of which is supported by masonry pillars, and the floor-space is let out to
the dealers. The mutton slaughter-house is most objectionably placed, as it
actually adjoins houses. It should be at once removed to the open ground
beyond the market, which was clean. I noticed that the compounds in the bazaar
were generally filthy, and that in many instances the floors of the houses have
been allowed to be built below the surface of the ground, but few of the houses
were properly ventilated at present. I was informed that no public latrine accom-
modation has been provided for the use of the inhabitants, but that one for each
sex has been sanctioned. I think two more will be required.
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