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MANUAL OF THE KILAGIRI DISTRICT. 



CHAP, IV, 

 PART III. 



Wellington. 



Medical 



Report on 



Climate, &c, 



Sanitary 

 condition. 



The bazaar. 



that from Kotagiri, Coonoor^ Barrack.Sj and the Commissariat 

 being most conspicuous. There are several houses of residents, 

 who are nearly all connected with the depot. The houses are 

 scattered prettily on the sides, slopes, and summits of the smaller 

 and sheltered hills. 



The cantonment is carefully supervised by a Committee, of 

 which the Commandant is President, the Cantonment Magistrate 

 Secretary, and the Senior Medical Officer Sanitary Officer. The 

 roads, compounds, hill-sides, and valleys are kept free of over- 

 growing or decaying underwood, hedges are clipped, grass for 

 grazing purposes preserved, drains kept clean, water-courses 

 kept from defilement, and the lower branches of trees lopped, 

 thus permitting a free current of air. For these duties the 

 Conservancy Committee is responsible. 



The Wellington Bazaar is prettily situated on the slope of a 

 hill extending to a valley leading from the west and south of the 

 barracks. It is well cared for, clean, and from its position well 

 drained throughout. It has masonry channels, which convey 

 drinking water obtained from a mountain stream to the north 

 and west, thus artificially turned to supply this bazaar. The 

 number of houses has decreased within the last two years. No 

 thatch is allowed, whilst ruinous houses have been removed, and 

 regularity with regard to position and ventilation insisted upon. 

 The natives are principally Pareiyas and Kanarese laborers with 

 a few dealers in grain and produce from the low country. The 

 Magistrate's Court is situated here, where criminal cases are 

 tried and civil suits are heard. During the year 1875, of the 

 former there were 880 cases, and of the latter 91. There is a 

 Police station also. During 1875 there was an expensive latrine 

 built here, which is worked on the dry-earth system, and adds 

 greatly to the cleanliness, and thereby the health of the village. 

 Its deposits are converted into poudrette, which meets with ready 

 sale to the coffee planters. 



There was a good deal of sickness in the bazaar during the 

 season of 1876, but this was general throughout the district, and 

 is attributed to the scarcity of rain. The inhabitants suifered 

 from febrile and bowel disorders. 



The natives of this station including camp followers, private 

 servants, the establishments of the Commissariat and Magistrate, 

 and the Sappers, which ai-e composed of a detachment of 35 men, 

 3 Naigues, 2 Havildars, and 1 Native officer, are totally without 

 any immediate supply of medicines or medical attendance, and 

 are obliged to apply to the Coonoor Dispensary — a distance of 

 two miles — for treatment. 



In 1875 there wore 141 persons living in fho Wellington 

 Bazaar who applied to the Coonoor Dispensary for treatment 



