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       58. The lines of the 2nd Prince of Wales Own Grenadiers were also extre-
mely well kept, the plinths of the pendalls are well raised and the ventilation.
in each room though not perhaps sufficient is much better than is usually seen.
in sepoys' huts. The privies of these lines are however extremely bad and were
so offensive that it was almost impossible to go into them. They are on the
standard plan but they are not paved in rear. They exhibited a marked
contrast to those occupied by the 14th Regiment, and were as bad as I have ever
seen; and they did not seem to me to have been as carefully inspected as those
of the 14th. Pools of urine were found in the front of each compartment from
which a most offensive smell emanated. If the standard plan is adopted the
floors front and rear should be asphalted or at least paved. These privies are
saturated, and I imagine will unless almost rebuilt be always a source of annoy
ance. The camp limits only I am informed extend as far as the nullah running
from west to east along the south front of these lines. I think they should be
extended up to the Khanapur road so as to take in the fields on the opposite side
of the nullah, so that the trench system might be adopted when these privies
chould be abolished altogether. The success of this system which was tried here
by a native infantry regiment some years ago is well exemplified by the magni-
ficent crops now growing in the field on the east of the Khanapur road which
was manured in this manner. The wells in these native infantry lines should be
covered, the water in the one in the 2nd Grenadier lines used by the Purwarrie
sepoys of the Regiment was defiled with leaves and other cutchra.

       59. The tent lascar lines are on the extreme end of camp on the S. E.,
they consist of merely mud huts with thatched roofs and are very bad, as they
are built in such close proximity to each other, and as the eaves of the thatch
come down to about 3 feet from the ground there is no ventilation and they are
not proper places for families to live in; the row of huts on the south should be,
at once removed and placed on the vacant ground on the west, but the huts
should be built on raised plinths and be well ventilated. Their privies were
clean and the filth like that from all the native infantry lines is taken out to
manure yard No. 2 on the Khanapur road.

       60. The Fort must be considered by itself as the town lies between it and
the rest of Cantonment. In it is quartered a detachment of the 7th Fusiliers,
108 men strong and their families, and the bungalows in it are occupied by
Officers and their families.

       61. The population is said to consist of—

This does not include the men of the detachment of the Fusiliersor their families,
&c. The European residents live in 36 bungalows surrounded by large compounds.
The number of cattle in the Fort is stated to be as follows:—