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13. There is no record to show the exact number of privies in the bazar,
but it is estimated that nearly every house has one. These too often are situated
inside the houses, but some are in a far safer condition being detached, but they
are all supposed to be cleaned through a wooden trap door opening on to the
street at the back. There is no record to show the number or even a correct
map to show the position of the drains in the Sudder Bazar but the great majority
of the privies are not connected with any drain, but the filthy fluid flows into an
absorbent cesspit of which it is said there are upwards of 2,500, and nearly all
this offensive matter soaks into the ground in the immediate neighbourhood of
the habitations of the people.
14. The houses that are connected with the drains are in great danger as
the connection consists of pipes plastered over at the top, so that all the gas from
the drains must pass into the house. These connections should without the
delay of a single day be made open on the top.
15. Some of the drains have not, Colonel Evezard informed me, been
opened for 40 years, so the state of filth in them may be more easily imagined
than described. They consist of the objectionable |_| shaped rubble masonry
drain with flat inverts and allow soakage all round, but there is no correct map
extant to show their size and position though they for the most part have been
made along the line of the natural channels for stormwater. In the aggregate the
underground drains are said to be only 20 yards short of two miles, in length, but
in the absence of a proper map it is almost impossible to describe them, and the
following is necessarily a very imperfect account of the course of the principal
ones.
16. A line drawn from East to West and North of the old English burial
ground may be said to show the area which is drained into an open ditch which
falls into the Manick nullah at Sucha Peer. The first arterial drain starts from
the west side of house No. 328 in Main street and runs down nearly in a straight
line to the back of the row of houses forming the north side of the grain market,
where it meets au intercepting sewer winch. starts from Main street nearly
opposite the Bazar office. It then follows the line of and is, in my opinion, in
most dangerous proximity to Rastias aqueduct, which it will be remembered is
one of the sources of water supply to the City until after passing under Taboot
road it reaches West street which it crosses at its junction with Sucha Peer street
but between houses 516 and 517 it ends in an open ditch and is discharged into
the main outlet which, in the absence of any other name, I will call the Sucha
Peer ditch.
17. The next main covered drain runs at the back of the shops occupied
by Borahs from house No. 336, on the North to house No. 1115, on the South.
Two drains are given off from it, one of which passes between houses 45 and 46
and the other down the gully between houses 58 and 59. These cross under Main
street and after draining Durjee Ali meet near the Musjid and are continued
as one drain to the back of a house in Centre street under which it passes, when
at the back of the vegetable market it becomes open and runs as an unmade ditch
under a baker's shop and behind one of the blocks of the mutton market until
it falls into the main open ditch just opposite the Convent Church and in the
vicinity of the Convent school for girls and St. Vincent's school for boys.
18. The district lying between the vegetable market and the grain market
to the south of Sucha Peer street is drained by two open nullahs which carry off
the stormwater through the filthy Kunjer Alli and passing as a single nullah
under West street are discharged into the Sucha Peer ditch between houses
which are occupied by Europeans.