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in the roofs and in the external walls of houses are matters of the most urgent
sanitary importance. For the roofs the openings
which are usually made in cook-rooms can easily be
constructed and for the external walls an open space
about 9 or 12 inches deep should be left all along
the wall under the eaves or else there should be
windows not less than 3' x 2 let in. The regis-
tration of births and deaths is also all important
and house-owners should be compelled under a
penalty to give information of the occurrence of a
birth or death in their houses.

    69. This report will show that the sanitary condition of the Sudder Bazar
of the principal Military Cantonment in the Western Presidency is in a condi-
tion which is eminently dangerous not only to its inhabitants but to the Euro-
pean soldiers who frequent it and to the large European community Civil as well
as Military who live around its outskirts, and the statement given in para. 42
shows how utterly and entirely inadequate is the amount of funds placed at the
disposal of the Cantonment Committee to provide for even a fraction of what is
absolutely necessary for the maintenance of a proper establishment for efficient
daily conservancy, and shows how entirely chimerical any hope must be of raising
a sum sufficient for the undertaking of those structural works of which there is
the most urgent need. If Mr. Norman's suggestion of the establishment of a
Municipality is allowed, sufficient funds for the reforms I have suggested regard-
ing conservancy may perhaps be raised; but no amount can be raised by local
taxation sufficiently large to pay for the cost of a sewerage scheme. This I
respectfully submit, considering the vast Imperial interests affected, should be at
all events partly defrayed by the State, and if, as has been suggested by the Can-
tonment authorities, a portion of the revenue derived from the sale of the
country liquor manufactured for, and consumed by, the people in the immediate
district was assigned for the provision of the necessary funds, the improvements
so much needed in the Sudder Bazar of Poona might be made.

    70. In bringing this section of my report on the sanitary condition of the
Cantonment of Poona to a conclusion, I would beg to express my acknowledge-
ments to the Cantonment Magistrate, Colonel Evezard, for all the trouble he has
taken to show me the worst parts of the bazar and in obtaining for me all the
information he was able to do.

T. G. HEWLETT,
Acting Sanitary Commissioner.