The Manick nullah bank is one huge latrine whilst ruinous houses afford ready
and convenient shelter for , the people to ease themselves. Early in the morning,
at the back of nearly every dead wall, the ground is found wet with urine.
24. The conservancy establishment consists of 14 rubbish carts which are
supplied by a contractor and are employed in the different sections of the bazar,
and it is intended that the cutchra should be thrown into them by the people as
the carts slowly move along the streets. 12 biggaries are engaged in. cleaning out
nullahs and drains, cutting hedges and doing any other work which may be
required. Whilst 7 men and 6 women are engaged in sweeping the roads and
filling the carts with rubbish; and 5 halalcores are employed in cleaning up
night-soil deposited during the night throughout the bazar. These people work
under the immediate orders of the conservancy sergeant who has under him a
havildar and 7 peons who are employed to superintend the work in the various
sections of the bazar. The cutchra is taken to the Potters' field at Lall Bagh
on the south-west of the bazar, dead to windward of the Wanourie barracks and
close to the Kurruckwasla canal.
25. The bazar is not lighted and the roads are not watered, though a few
streets are sometimes watered by private subscription.
26. The only offensive trades allowed to be carried on are the tannery or
rather a skin dressing establishment over the Manick nullah and one indigo dyer.
27. The vegetable, mutton and beef markets in the Sudder Bazar are in
every way unsuited for the sale of food. The mutton market is situated on
either side of a crowded street opposite the Convent Church School and close
to the junction of three streets. It consists of two tiled sheds built on either side
of the road. There are 15 stalls in each shed, and the meat hangs in the veran-
dahs of the sheds but running diagonally across the road a few feet above the
market and crossing under a baker's shop is the open unmade drain of the dis-
trict. This drain as it passes close to the market has been covered with planks
in order to keep off some of the stench, but three privies discharge their liquid.
contents into it from adjacent houses immediately opposite the back of the shed
where in a verandah the heads, feet, &c., are sold, and the ground between it and
the drain is the resort for natural purposes of all the market people and passers
by the road. A Kurruckwasla water stand pipe has been erected in front of the
south side of the market, but no drain has been made to carry away the' wastage
water which, consequently, causes the ground to be kept in an unwholesome state.
At the back of the shed on the north side the ground below the dead wall of
the market is made wet by the urine of the residents of the filthy huts in the
immediate neighbourhood, one of which approaches within 6 feet of the building.
These huts are occupied by the families of 30 mutton butchers. Dogs hungry,
lean and nearly rabid congregate along the road between the sheds, whilst the
dust blows over the meat tainted as it is with the drain emanations, and the flies
which are innumerable make a passage through the mutton market any thing
but desirable.
28. The vegetable fruit and fish market is a little further along the same
road at its junction with Centre street. It consists of 17 stalls built on either side
of the road, whilst the same filthy unmade open drain passes in the rear of the
row of stalls on the north side. The traders have covered the road side gutters
over with planks which are raised so as to form platforms in front of the shops.
The fish sellers 6 in number, are allowed to cut up and gut the fish in the road.
I know of no native municipality where the arrangements are so bad.
29. The beef market consisting of two tiled sheds built on either side of
the road is further away towards the south end of the bazar. Each shed con--
tains at the east end 5 stalls of a superior kind, as the platform on which the
vendors sit and the verandah in front of it are paved. These stalls are separated