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REPORT ON THE BARRACKS OCCUPIED BY EUROPEAN TROOPS AT POONA.

INSPECTED IN OCTOBER 1876.

In submitting this section of the Report on the Cantonment of Poona I
shall only refer to those points which I think should be brought to notice, as the
barracks have often before been reported on by previous Sanitary Commissioners.

2. The Right Flank Lines at Wanowrie were, at the date of my inspection,
occupied by the Head-Quarter Wing of the 2-15th Regiment, which is of the fol-
lowing strength:—

Officers,	Serjeants.	Corporals.	Drummers.	Privates.	Total.
34	39	40	17	796	926

The Wanowrie barracks consist of 6 new-pattern and 8 old-pattern barracks.
They are built on the highest ground in the Cantonment, and the natural drainage
from them is very good, as there is a good fall to the north-west, and the ground
on which they stand is at all seasons stated to be dry.

3. The new-pattern 6 barracks, facing north-west, are upper-storied, and
the following is the description return of them:—

Building.	Number.	Number of Sto- ries.	Aspect.	Dimensions.			Total super- ficial Area.	Total Cubic Space.	Superfi- cial Area per Man.	Cubic Space per Man.	By Scale anther- ized to dete will accorn- modate.
Building.	Number.	Number of Sto- ries.	Aspect.	Length.	Breadth.	Height.	Total super- ficial Area.	Total Cubic Space.	Superfi- cial Area per Man.	Cubic Space per Man.	By Scale anther- ized to dete will accorn- modate.
New Barrack, Upper- storied.	11	U.	N. W.	174	24	21½	4,176	87,696	94	1,993	46
	11	L.	„	171½	23½	17	4,030	68,510	93	1,593	44
	12	U.	,,	166	24	21	3 984	83 664	97	2,040	44
	12	L.	,,	163	23½	17	3,842	65,314	93	1,593	42
	13	U.	„	144	24	21	3,456	72,576	108	2,268	38
	13	L.	,,	141½	23½	17	3,325	56,525	103	1,766	36
	14	U	,,	144	24	21	3,456	72,576	104	2,199	38
	14	L	,,	141½	23½	17	3,325	56,525	107	1,823	36
	15	U.	„	144	24	21	3,456	72,576	93	1,961	38
	15	L.	„	141½	23½	17	3,325	56,525	89	1,527	36
	16	U.	„	144	24	21	3,456	72,576	93	1,961	38
	16	L.	„	141½	23½	17	3,325	56,525	92	1,570	36

They are, as will be seen by the accompanying plan, on the left flank of the
lines. Four of them are built in pairs, one alongside the other, the two in the
rear being separated from the pair in front by a distance of 500 feet. The
remaining two are in echelon, 200 feet intervening being the end of adjacent
barracks.

4. The ground-floor is raised on a plinth of 3 feet; but, contrary—I believe
—to the original design, it is used as an abode for the men, and thus does away
with the intention of allowing the British soldier in India only to sleep in upper-
storied barracks. The ventilation of the rooms on the ground-floor is not perfect,
as there was a close smell observed on entering them in the early morning. The
doors are shut by the men during the night, and thus the only means of ventila-
tion left is through the revolving windows and the small openings above each
door, and by the foul-air shafts led up to the roof. The panels of the doors
should, in my opinion, have fixed louvres fitted, so that the men could not have
the power of shutting them; and the revolving windows should be fixed open, as
they were invariably found to be shut.

5. On the upper floor the serjeants' quarters have no cook-room, and the
cooking is sometimes performed, I was told, in the bath-room, which projects from
it The pipe from this bath-room, by which the dirty water escapes, is led straight