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prices. The Kalupur road is during the rains simply a sewer. The mixed sul-
lage and storm-water pass down over it as far as Panchkore Naka, where they are
carried to the south through Mochee Ole, past the Municipal Office as far as the
Oliphant Road, where they are discharged into the river. The people here, I
was informed, often wade through 3 feet of diluted sullage which flow past their
houses.

    55. The Municipality has done its duty very commendably in providing 35
public necessaries, besides setting apart a field for natural purposes. I think
the Saraspur plan of the people resorting to the field for natural purposes is
for villages in India a good one, as the ordure is passed at a distance from habi-
tations; but the position of the field as regards the prevailing wind should be
carefully settled, and the nightsoil should be buried in trenches 1 foot deep and
1 foot broad, with an interval of 1 foot between each trench.

    56. The owners of ruinous houses should be compelled to enclose their
property, and to remove the debris, which might usefully be applied to fill in low-
lying places.

    57. There is much need of a public garden in Ahmedabad. In the Jamal-
pur Zillah one might easily be formed, if any good water could be found for the
watering of plants. Some of the rich Settias could not commemorate the visit
of the Prince of Wales more happily than by making the city a present of a
garden where persons of all classes could take recreation.

    58. The bottom of the Kakria Tank should be deepened, and the mud
removed, and it should afterwards be paddled. It would prove a very valuable
source of drinking water, if the trades I have named be situated in that locality.
There is, I believe, a large balance already collected for the improvement of the
tank.

    59. I would, in conclusion, desire to express my acknowledgments to the
Collector of Ahmedabad, Mr. Pratt, for the aid he afforded me in conducting the
above inquiry.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

T. G. HEWLETT,

Acting Sanitary Commissioner,

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