of the cantonment of Dharwar by the Acting Sanitary Commissioner, I have
the honour to state, with reference to paragraph 7 of the report, that I have
never detected any one using the bath as a urinal.

      2. It is possible the smell which Surgeon-Major Hewlett detected actually
came from the iron pan into which the sepoys in hospital pass urine, inas-
much as this pan is placed only a few yards from the bath.

      3. This iron pan contains dry earth, and my orders are to have fresh
earth placed in it every two hours or oftener, if necessary.

      4. The bath is constructed according to the revised standard plan for
Native Infantry Hospitals, recommended in1871.

      5. One of the two wards for the treatment of infectious diseases is very
near to the Belgaum road, but considering the amount of space available, I do
not think this could have been well avoided; moreover their size is such that
only two or three patients should be treated in each, and in the event of a
serious epidemic occurring, a large kutcha building would have to be erected, or
the patients would require to be treated in tents on a more favourable site.

      6. The position of the hospital and buildings was determined by a Com-
mittee ordered to be assembled by the Officer Commanding Dharwar.

      7. I quite agree with the Sanitary Commissioner that kutcha buildings are
to be preferred for the treatment of infectious deseases as they can be de-
stroyed after they are no longer required. But I think that small pucka built
wards, similar to those we have, are very useful for the treatment of a solitary
case of small-pox or cholera into which the patient can be placed at once.

      8. At the present time I have a solitary case of small-pox under treat-
ment. Had there been no infectious ward, this man would have been placed
in a tent, and the tent would be destroyed when the man is discharged from
hospital.

      9. The bath has not yet been used, for the hospital was not ready for the
reception of sick until the beginning of the last monsoon.

      10. I would again earnestly recommend that a well be at once provided
near the hospital. It might be built as a famine work in the same manner as
other relief works are now being executed. The nearest well to the hospital
is nearly half a mile distant.

      11. The dead-house will be commenced to be built shortly.

I have the honour to be, &c.,               
(Signed) C. F. OGILVIE, M.D., Surgeon-Major,        
H. M,'s 12th Regiment N. I.

Military Department.
      No. 1340.

Bombay Castle,   
26th March 1877.

      Letter from the Quarter Master General of the Army, No. 19-51-1299, dated 20th
March 1877.

Para 4.

      SIR,—Referring to Government Resolution, Military Department, No. 5054, dated 22nd
November 1876, forwarding a copy of the Acting Sanitary Commissioner's report on the
Cantonment of Dharwar, I am desired, by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, to state
that the site recommended by Dr. Hewlett for a Native burial ground has
been adopted.

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