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No. 2 OF 1877.

Cantonment Ahmednagar,
8th January 1877.   

FROM

                  THE OFFICER COMMANDING AT ARMEDNAGAR,
                                          AND PRESIDENT, CANTONMENT COMMITTEE,

To

                    THE SANITARY COMMISSIONER, BOMBAY.

                  SIR,

         In reply to your letter of the 28th October last, forwarding your In-
spection Report—herewith returned—on the Cantonment of Ahmednagar, I
have the honour, agreeably to the procedure laid down in Government Resolution,
General Department, No. 2617, dated 23rd August 1876, to return it with copies
of the Resolution passed by the Cantonment Committee.

I have the honour to be,
       Sir,
         Your most obedient Servant,
                     FRANCIS LOCH, Colonel,
                  and President, Cantonment Committee.

EXTRACT from Proceedings of the Cantonment Committee assembled at Ahmed-
         nagar on the 12th day of December 1876, para. 15.

         The Reports on the suggestions made by the Sanitary Commissioner agreeably
to Cantonment Committee Proceedings, para. 8, of the 11th Nouenaber 1876,
having been submitted, are read.

         The Committee agree in the views expressed by the Sub-Committee, and
suggest their proceedings be forwarded to the Sanitary Commissioner with a
few general remarks, as follows:—

         Para. 6—Married Men's Quarters.—Latrines. The proximity of the latrines
to the cook-houses is most objectionable; but the great defect complained
of by the Sanitary Commissioner might be remedied by closing up the win-
dows on the cook-room sides, and by perforating the north and east and
south and west walls, which would allow a free circulation of air. This, if ap-
proved of and sanctioned, could be carried out by the men of the 66th Regiment
at a trifling cost.

         Para. 8.—The clerestory windows should be so fixed at certain seasons of
the year that they would always remain open, and thus admit a free current of
air at all times. The ropes might be coiled up on a hook fixed in the wall at
the same height as the lower portion of the clerestory windows, instead of being
removed, as suggested by Sub-Committee.

         B 632—f