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whilst about 200 are said to be detached, and are situated either in the compound
or outside it; beside which there are about 50 deep pit privies in the town.
The Municipality has erected public latrines on the following sites
: —
On the west, outside Baleh ves, one for males with 100 seats.
,, north, outside Tuljipur ves, two for females, each with 100 seats.
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north, outside Kumbhar yes, one for males with 50 seats,
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east, in Sakhar Peit, one for females with 35 seats.
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,, one for males with 35 seats.
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south, in Shideshwar Peit, one for females with 20 seats,
,, ,, one for males with 30 seats.
So that in the 8 public privies there are 215 seats for males and 255 for
females, or a total of 470 seats. Large as this amount of public privy accom
-modation is, it is not, however, nearly sufficient for the wants of the people, and
men and women in great numbers are to be met early in the morning going out
into the fields on the west, north, and east. The number of people attending
these privies during one day was counted at my request, and it was found that
only 2,015 males and 1,665 females, or a total of 3,680 persons, visited them, so
that each seat was only used 8 times during the 24 hours. I am not surprised
at the public privies being not more used, as they are built on a wrong construc-
tion and emit a, very bad smell. Among the private privies about 500 are said
to be regularly built with bricks, but the remaining 1,700 consist simply of the
hare ground enclosed with mud walls. In the built privies it is ordered that below
each seat should be placed an iron vessel which should retain, at all events, the
night-soil; but in the great majority of these I saw that the order had been
neglected, as there was no receptacle of any kind whatever, and all the nightsoil,
urine, and ablution water remained below the seat to putrefy until the private
bunghy chose to remove it. In many the floors of the privies are paved, and in
these an opening is made to convey away the fluid by leading it into a chatty
let into the ground outside, and in some of the houses there were seen to be
regularly built cesspits, of which there are stated to be 100, but in too many in
-stances no provision whatever was made, and the filfty fluid soaked into a hole
in the ground. In the mud enclosures outside no receptacles of any kind were
seen, and there all the fluid soaks hate the earth.
8. There are altogether 29 miles of roads, of which 7 are metalled in the
town. About 1,124 yards of pavement have been provided for the road-side
gutters, but the remainder are simply unmade earth trenches. There are a few
under-ground drains in the city, the aggregate length of which is stated to
be 4,525 feet. These drains have their out-fall on the east at Kumbhar yes,
where they discharge into the Lenki Nullah, and on the north-east at Tuljipur
ves and on the west at the Deh gaon ves the storm water is discharged into the
Shelgi Nullah, but during the fair season the sullage never reaches it, as it
soaks into the ground, and is absorbed in the close vicinity of the town.
9. The surface of the roads is, as a rule, well swept; but inside private
enclosures were seen heaps of rubbish which is seldom, if ever, removed. The
great number of ruinous houses in the city and the many open spaces afford
Convenient sites for the inhabitants, who are too lazy or indifferent to go out
- s i d e t o p e r f o r m t h e o f f i c e s o f n a t u r e , a n d m u c h n i g h t - s o i l w a s s e e n l y i n g a b o u t
the town in the lanes.
10. The conservancy establishment works under the orders of the Secre--
tary, and consists of—
6 inspectors,
16 nuisance peons,
25 men
road sweepers,
20 women
and. 16 carts for the removal of the cutchra. These carts are supplied by co