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       62. A great deal too much undergrowth has been allowed to grow in the
compounds; there are many fine trees but so long as the lower branches of these
are kept lopped they so far from being prejudicial are good as their roots absorb
moisture and their leaves carbonic acid; but for example in compound attached to
house No. 27 belonging to Mullipa shroff, the jungle was so dense that I could
not see 20 yards a head and in the compound occupied by the Reverend Mr. Smith
it is also very thick. In Mr. Mackenzie's compound it was also objectionable.

       63. In each compound there is a servant's privy, but these were in some
instances very dirty, and I took occasion to point out to Officers occupying
one or two houses how objectionable was the state of their servant's privy; a
pool of offensive liquid urine mixed with ablution water being found in rear
of each privy inspected.

       64. The nightsoil from the barracks, bungalows and servants' privies is
after collection deposited into iron buckets standing under an open shed close to
Officers' bungalows, the nearest occupants of which complained bitterly of the
nuisance caused by it. The smell emanating from it was at least on one
occasion so penetrating that a person sleeping in one of the adjacent bungalows
was awakened out of sleep by it. A filth cart comes at 11 A.M and removes
these boxes, but it has to pass by the only road out of the Fort through the
main guard gate, and I can personally testify to the extremely disgusting
nuisance it causes. In a Fort where the maintenance of the walls is a military
necessity, this stuff should not be stored as it is now, and the best way would be
to make a covered way through the walls on the east and a wooden foot bridge
across the ditch, so that it could be carried at once outside and deposited into a
cart stationed on the other side of the ditch.

       65. The conservancy establishment allowed for the Fort consists of—

                         4 Carts.

                         4 Scavengers.

                         1 Halalcore.

                         1 Mukadum.

                         1 Night-soil cart.

All this filth is supposed to be carried across the eastern embankment of
the tank below Toorkmutee Hill and to be deposited at manure yard No. 3; the
night-soil is thrown into pits and the cutchra over the ground. The manure
yard has very wrongly been allowed to be established within a few yards and to
windward of the Kunbergee road, and is managed in the same unscientific way
as the one previously described. The cutchra however is not taken there during
the rains but is deposited in a pit near the Kaladgi road as the track across
the eastern embankment of the tank is so bad that it is nearly impassable but a
pair of buffaloes still take the night-soil cart to this place.

       66. I will now speak of what I noticed in the barracks occupied by the
detachment of the Fusiliers in the Fort.

       The following is the description return of these barracks:—