MANa'AL OK TIIK NILAGIRI niSTIlICT 



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Notes on 

 Public 

 Works. 



been completed can accommodate 1 Principal, 1 Matron, 3 CH. XVIII. 



Sergeants, 2 Mistresses, 400 boys and 144 girls, with workshops 



for the boys and quarters for native servants ; but no separate 



hospital for either boys or girls having yet been provided, and 



the accommodation for the boys' staff (such as masters, &c.) 



being very limited, some of the dormitories are used as hospitals, 



tailors' shops, &c. ; and sergeants and other Euro])eans are 



lodged in quarters intended, when designed and sanctioned, for 



native servants. The whole of the buildings, as they now stand, 



accommodate 



1 Principal, 



1 Manager, 



6 Masters, 



() Sergeants, 



4 Farm servants (Europeans) 



2 Matrons, 



3 Mistresses, 

 330 boys, and 



60 girls, 



besides numerous native servants. Each boy is supplied with 

 735 cubic and 25 square feet of sleeping space ; he is also sup- 

 plied with very large school and dining rooms, a covered play 

 ground and every other convenience. This has cost, including 

 everything, £164 per (boy) head. Each girl is supplied with 785 

 cubic and 38 square feet of sleeping space ; other accommodation 

 is in many respects limited ; the building cost is £75 per (girl) 

 head. The site selected for the asylums is very salubrious, being 

 freely open to every breeze, and on ground which falls away from 

 the buildings on all sides. The boys' asylum is a large, lofty, 

 handsome, double-storied building, forming three sides of a 

 quadrangle, and designed in the Italian Gothic style with a 

 campanile 130 feet high. It is well built of the best materials. 

 The boys' food is cooked in Duff's stoves. Water is supplied in 

 open channels, and is pumped up some 50 feet to the building 

 plateau. Its distribution might be improved. The latrines are 

 on the dry-earth system, but are sanitarily too close to the main 

 buildings. The girls' asylum (designed as the hospital) is a 

 single-storied unpretentious but commodious and convenient 

 building. Its sanitary arrangements are similar to those of the 

 boys' branch. 



All building materials are found on the Nilagiris except lime Building 

 and timber. The stone is a gneiss of a very hard description, and ^naterials. 

 is seldom chiselled. It is used as rough rubble in the retaining 

 walls of roads, and answers well. Admirable clay for bricks is 

 obtainable everywhere. The sand for mortar is very impure and 

 dirty : no really good silicious sand can be procured except by 

 breaking up the quartz pebbles which abound. Road metal is of 

 three kinds — broken gneiss, which is very hard and makes a good 

 surface ; broken decomposed sienite, which bears moderate 

 traffic ; and broken laterite, or gravel, which binds well and cai*ries 



