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      12. The crowding of the European burial-ground with the bodies of Native
Christians is an evil that ought and can be stopped by the exercise of a little
wholesome power of restraint on the part of the Cantonment Committee. The
faulty construction of the regimental hospital seems to be further aggravated
by the crowding together of a heap of subsidiary buildings and servants' quarters,
which shut out the light and hinder ventilation. By what Dr. Hewlett very
justly terms an "extraordinary arrangement," the dead-house and cook-room are
placed close together in an objectionable vicinity, which the Committee think it
would be difficult to find a parallel for elsewhere.

      13. Regarding the filth deposited in the nullah near the officers' bungalows,
and the various other nuisances complained of in that neighbourhood, the Sani-
tary Commissioner proposes to extend the Cantonment limits so as to include, at
least, a quarter of a mile on the east side of the nullah. This, if feasible, would
be a very desirable reform, and would protect the immediate neighbourhood
against some of the worst and most Offensive of the many nuisances existing in
the locality.

      14. It only remains for the Committee to draw attention to the emphatic
language in which the Sanitary Commissioner insists upon the necessity of sub-
soil drainage. Dr. Hewlett, the Committee are glad to perceive, bears willing
testimony to the great efforts now being made by the Executive Engineer at
Poona to improve the condition of the officers' quarters by cutting deep surface
drains; but he complains that these are not paved at the bottom, and he states
that, however good and necessary surface drainage may be in itself, it cannot be
held to take the place of, or supersede the necessity for, subsoil drainage.

      15. Before concluding this Report the Committee again take occasion to
record the sense of their obligation to the Sanitary Commissioner for his most
valuable description of the present sanitary condition of the European Canton-
ment at Poona. The Report, drawn up in clear, terse, and vigorous language, with-
out verbiage or ambiguity, is a model of what sanitary reports ought to be. It
may be sometimes considered expedient to differ from the views of the Sanitary
Commissioner; but it is impossible to mistake his meaning, and the precision and
definiteness of his statements are above all praise.

                          MARK KERR, C.B., Lieut.-General,
                                 President, Cantonment Committee.

                         M. MILES, Colonel,
                                 Commanding Her Majesty's 26th Regiment.

                         R. MACDONALD CHAMBERS, Lieut.-Colonel,
                                 Commanding Her Majesty's 5th Regiment
                                          Native Light Infantry.

                         C. W. WAHAB, Lieut.-Colonel,
                                 Commanding Her Majesty's 8th Regiment
                                          Native Infantry.

                         T. B. BEATTY,
                                 Deputy Surgeon-General, I. M. D.

                         L. S. BRUCE, Surgeon-Major,
                                 Civil Surgeon.

                         F. J. HERCY, Major,
                                 Commanding Her Majesty's 2nd Queen's.

                         E. SEXTON, Surgeon-Major,
                                 In medical charge Lock Hospital.

                         G. C. EVEZARD, Colonel,
                                 Secretary, Cantonment Committee.