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47.
The Officers' Lines in this part of the Cantonment appeared to be well
kept, and the servants' privies in their compounds are carefully looked after.
48. The Commissariat Cattle Lines, situated on the right bank of the Bhingar
Nullah below the village, were extremely clean: The privies of the followers who
have huts in these lines were very well kept, and were quite clean. The slaughter-
yards and hanging-rooms were perfectly clean, and evidently great attention is
paid to this most important duty. These buildings and the cattle-sheds are
quite the best I have as yet seen in any Cantonment.
49.
The burial-grounds are in a safe position and are carefully attended
to, and much good has been done by the careful supervision over the Musalmans'
burial-ground.
50. The walls of the Fort of Ahrnednagar enclose an area of 50 acres.
It now only contains the magazine, and ordnance and barrack stores ; but it is
approached by a carriage-way through the main gate, over which are quarters for
4 European soldiers. These are well ventilated, but are somewhat shut in by the
ramparts above ; but, on the whole, are fairly good ;but the Key Serjeant's quarters
over the gate are not, in my opinion, a fit residence for a European. The privy
for the men is also on the ramparts, but there is a very dangerous hole—now
partly protected by a shutter laid over it—on the way to the privy. This, I think,
should be seen to at once. I would also remark that, in my opinion, in case this
fort should ever be used as a place of refuge by Europeans, that the water in the
wells should be regularly drawn and kept clean ; and it should, I think, be seen
that they are independent of the NagabEie Aqueduct, which formerly supplied it,
and which would be certainly cut off by an enemy. The fort ditch is now kept
dry, and rightly so, as the place was formerly uninhabitable from malaria, which,
since this action was taken, has ceased.
51. The general parade-ground intervenes between the fort and the Native
infantry Lines, which are built on the usual plan. Two blocks of 32 pendalls
divide a central street, 100 feet broad—each block consisting of 8 rows of 2
pendalls, each divided by streets 60 feet broad ; whilst the cross-streets are all 21
feet wide, except the centre one, which is said to be 30 feet—the Native Officers'
huts being on either flank of each of the 8 companies.
52. The sepoys' pendalls consist of single-tiled buildings. The corner
rooms are appropriated to the havildars, as they are larger than the sepoys' rooms,
and have a superficial area of 108 feet, whilst the cubic space amounts to 1,310
cubic feet. Each of these corner rooms has a verandah on two sides, which adds
130 superficial and 1,040 cubic feet to each of these quarters. Each private
sepoy—as I learn from the Report of Dr. Ticehurst dated 1874—has the follow-
ing accommodation :—
Private— Single.
Cubic Space.
Superficial Area.
One room
78 feet
1,164 feet
Verandah—enclosed
35 „
280 „
Private—Married.
One room
113 feet
1,384 feet
Verandah—enclosed
49 ,,
392 , ,
There are 4 oblong holes in the mud walls of the verandah, which were
almost invariably found to be blocked ; and the door, which is said to be 5 feet
high, affords the only means of ventilation. The mance is placed in a corner of
each verandah, and along the rows of pendalls little strips of gardens have been
planted; but the ranee water is led in some instances over half-tiled gutters to
the earth trench, which has been cut in the surface, and which has a good fall either
to the east or west, as the lines have been built over the summit of a ridge,
with good natural drainage either way.
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