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     7. The Sudder Bazaar is situated on the west of the lines. Its population
is said to consist of:—

These persons are said to live in 200 houses, 150 being of the better sort and 50
of an inferior description, so that, on the average, there are 3.40 persons to a house;
84 of these houses have privies on the premises, which were in a dirty state at
the time of my visit. There are no drains, and the urine and ablution-water
escape at the back, and soak into the earth. The roads were as clean as they can
be kept with the limited establishment allowed, viz., 1 cart and 2 sweepers.

     8. The shops seemed to be well supplied. Beef is only procurable once
a week, when one animal is killed about half mile away on the maidan, as there
is no slaughter-house or beef-market, and the butchers expose the meat for sale
in the verandahs of their houses, which are separate from the rest of the bazaar.
About 6 or 7 sheep are slaughtered at the same place daily, and the mutton is
also sold in the verandahs of the mutton-butchers' houses. One large cattle
stable contained 150 head of cattle; it was very dirty, as there is no drainage
to carry away the urine.

     9. The cutchra and nightsoil collected in the Sudder Bazaar are taken to a
place about ½ a mile away, and deposited behind a small hill, where the animals
for the bazaar are slaughtered, and below the hill is situated the trench-latrine
for the use of residents in the bazaar, but it is too far off to be generally used.

     10. Last year there were 14 deaths reported in the bazaar—2 being from
fever, 3 from bowel complaint, and the remainder from other causes; 6 of these
were infants under one year of age, 1 under 12 years, 4 were adults, and 3 old
people. Vaccination appeared to be diligently carried on among the children.

     11. Dr. Johnson has done excellent service in organizing a periodical
inspection of the prostitutes living just outside the Sudder Bazaar, and has thus
checked the ravages of venereal disease.

     12. I am of opinion that the lines are not as good as they should be, and
that when an opportunity offers itself they should be rebuilt on a better plan,
with raised plinths and more ventilation. The question of the bathing-water
difficulty can be met in two ways—either (and this is the best way) by forbidding
sepoys to wash themselves inside their huts or compounds at all (in which event
it would be necessary to provide lavatories for each sex, on proper sites near the
pendalls), or, if this cannot be done, by leading the water through a drain, away
from the huts. It would even be better to make a little strip of garden in front
of each row of huts, and lead the water to it, than allow it to soak into the ground
close to the walls.