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officers and their e stab li slim ents. The situation of the 

 buildings was in a hollow, and most depressing and un- 

 healthy, the site was chosen because it was near the water ! ! 

 and a better spot for catching fever could not well have 

 been chosen. I selected a site on a ridge, a few miles off, Houses for forest 

 close to the forest work, and where, by sinking wells, good 

 water could be obtained. I further recommended that all 

 the houses should be upstair ones; the sleeping rooms raised 

 at least ten feet from the ground, as malaria rarely rises 

 above that height. Several officers and overseers had lost 

 their health mainly due to the position of the bungalows. 

 Colonels Michael, Hamilton and Beddome, Messrs. Gosling 

 and Douglas and many overseers. At Nellumbore it was 

 the same, the bungalow was in a low place, though there 

 was a hill some three hundred feet high a short distance off. 

 I strongly recommended a good bungalow on the top. The 

 difference of temperature alone in that sweltering climate 

 must have been at least six or seven degrees, to say nothing of 

 a healthy breeze. Too much importance cannot be attached 

 to the situation of the forest residence, it should always 

 have a sleeping apartment, at least ten feet aboveground. 

 At Mudumalli, the hut was built on the rising ground, but it 

 had no upper storey. It would be well if a proper bungalow, 

 with substantial cooly lines, were built, as there is much 

 planting to be done in this part of the forest. The Moplas 

 in Malabar, as a rule, have upper stories to their houses, and 

 no doubt they have a good reason for this style of building. 

 All our forest houses should have upstair rooms, and we 

 shall then have less of fever. With regard to the health of 

 the establishment, I shall have something to say farther on. 



Major Campbell Walker has shown how floating is accom- Floating Wynaad 

 plished in his work, " Report on Forest management/' tuuber - 

 possibly with some expenditure, for there is much blasting 

 to be done, many of our hill streams could be utilised. At 

 Goondry Wynaad, timber from the northern part of 

 Wyuaad is floated to Nuugengode near Mysore. There 

 are so many rocks in the Cubbauy River that boats could 



