Ventilation.
Lines, huts,
&c.
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SAUGOR DISTRICT.
All ventilation takes place through the doorways, except in the end houses, which are
provided in addition with an opening 1'6"×1' in their outer wall.
The lines are the best of their kind that I have ever seen. The huts are in good repair
and look roomy. There are 325 huts in the lines, of these 309 are at present occupied. Total
number of occupants 1,069 (men 342, women 287, children 440), thus giving 3.45 as the
average number of occupants of each occupied hut.
Number of huts
in the lines.
occupied
huts.
Number of
occupants.
MEASUREMENTS OF A HUT.
Superficial area
per man.
Cubic space
per man.
Length.
Breadth.
Mean
height.
Superficial
area.
Cubic
space.
325
309
1069
20 ft.
16 ft.
10 ft.
320
3,200
92.75
927.53
VI. Drainage of the station and lines .—The drainage of the station is by surface
drains. During the year about one-third of the drains in the sudder bazaar have been made
pucka of brick and mortar, the remainder are surface drains of varying size and depth;
these drains empty themselves into the Dhorea Nuddee which runs on the west side of this
bazar. The drainage of the lines is carried out by shallow surface drains in front of the
rows of huts; these drains run into a larger surface drain on each side of the main road;
if the quantity of water is small, it soon becomes absorbed, but in the rainy season these
latter drains discharge their contents across the parade ground into the Koomraree Nuddee.
This nuddee also receives the drainage of the cavalry lines and commissariat godowns.
The Koomraree and Dhorea Nuddees join the Bhanran Nuddee, which empties itself into
the Dessam River. The Seelap Nuddee, which receives the drainage of the new cantonment,
also empties itself into the Dessam River. Thus the whole drainage of the station is into the
Dessam River. The drainage of the station even through the rainy season is said to be very
good .
VII. Conservancy and latrines— There are no regimental latrines, and
consequently the men either use the private latrines, or resort to the fields and
nullahs for necessary purposes; the women and children make use of the small
latrine which is to be found in the court-yard of each hut, and the night soil
is removed from it twice daily and buried in trenches about 120 yards distant
from the lines. Cultivation has been carried out over the site of the older
trenches, but the resulting crops were indifferent.
Drainage of
the station
and lines.
Conservancy
and latrines.
The water-supply was from wells, and was abundant and of good quality;
to two of the wells are attached troughs for the purpose of watering and wash
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ing animals, and a coping round each well prevents the return of refusewater.
IX. Diet .—The regimental bazaar is described as being small, clean,
and supplied with articles of fairly good quality, but the sepoys mostly pur
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chase their supplies in the sudder bazar where they are able to make better
bargains. As a rule, the men are well fed and well nourished, and as rice is their
staple article of diet, each man receives Rs. 3 per mensem as "rice compensa
-
tion money." The average daily cost of an unmarried sepoy's diet is but one
anna.
The regimental clothing seems to be well suited to the climate and to the
duties the men have to perform, but the undress clothing is considered to be
much too thin for wear during the cold-weather eather months.
As the sepoys purchase their own boots, which, as a rule, are ill fitting
and made of country leather, it is not surprising that, when worn without
socks, as is generally the case, cases of "blisters of the fect" have been very
c o m m o n .
Water supply.
Diet.
Clothing.
Boots.
The duties consisted of the usual regimental and brigade parades, regi
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mental and station guards, route marches occasionally, and a guard with the
Political Agent on the occasion of his making his tour through the district.
The men have had but an average of 3.25 nights in bed, and the medical
officer addressed the commanding officer on this point.
A few of the men indulge in shooting and fishing, and attempts at garden
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ing were noticed.
XIV. Hospital.—The hospital is built on slightly elevated ground towards the north
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west end of the old cantonment. The ground slopes gradually towards the east and west.
The drainage on the east side takes place into the Dhorea Nuddee, which runs about 50 yards
distant, on the west, into a side-road drain.
On the north and west are open grounds; on the south (at some little distance) is the
sudder bazar and civil hospital; on the eastis the cantonment.
Duties.
Hospital.