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   25. The station is kept pretty clean; but I was disappointed at seeing the
private bunghies burying, or rather depositing, the night-soil from the bungalows
in the hedges, in the very close proximity to houses; and I was not surprised to
hear that some persons had lately died of typhoid fever. This practice should
be stopped. A halalcore cess might be imposed on the residents of the fort and
station, as is done in Bombay; and the stuff should be deposited in a cart and
carried away.

   36. The police are quartered in the old Native Infantry Lines, many of
the old huts in which have been pulled down, and the ground has been partially
cleared. The premises were clean; but the huts are not, in my opinion, sufficiently
good for sepoys to live in.

   37. Dr. Sylvester was kind enough to take me over the Civil Hospital, in
the compound of which there are some cells devoted to the custody of lunatics.
I was glad to hear that it was proposed to place the Civil Hospital in the fort, a
spot so much nearer the town that its benefits will be much more widely ex-
tended, and then there will be space sufficient on the site of the present Civil
Hospital to build a central lunatic asylum, which is evidently much needed. I
also went over the jail, and was much pleased with the order, neatness, and great
attention paid to sanitary measures in it. The trench latrine in the grounds
were wonderfully well kept, and there was no odour of any kind perceptible.

   38. The accounts of the municipality will be found in the Appendix. It
will be seen that, during 1875-76, Rs. 7,448-10-1 were spent on sanitation.

   39. I have been favoured with a copy of the bye-laws which are in opera-
tion in Dharwar, and I generally approve of most of these provisions; and this is
the first town which I have inspected which carries out the system I have so
often before recommended, regarding the registration of births and deaths, viz.,
the compulsory registration by the principal occupant of a building to report,
within a specified time of the occurrence of a birth or death taking place in the
house in which he resides.

   40. Such is a brief account of the sanitary condition of Dharwar as I saw
it at my inspection in August 1876.

   41. The birth-rate during the last two years has been—

   42. The number of deaths registered in the following years in Dharwar
will be seen below:—