1839.] Dr, Burke's Reports. 67 



able deposit of stagnant water, which before its final evaporation 

 cannot fail to be an agent more or less active in the generation of 

 miasmata. 



In the Barracks for the European troops here, the plans adopted 

 by the architect would appear to have arisen from the idea of a 

 Regiment standing in open column of companies, which however 

 ingenious in a military point of view, is rather objectionable in a 

 medical one, as it makes one building a screen to another, and thus 

 opposes perfect perflation, an object of paramount importance where 

 masses of men are to be congregated together, and where a perpe- 

 tual current of air becomes the grand neutralizer of insalubrious 

 miasmata. 



The prevailing winds are from the west and east, varying to the 

 north or south. If the buildings were placed in echelon this might 

 be prevented. 



Meerut 



In the Station of Meerut the locality is in Meerut deemed good. 

 There are a few j heels and swamps in the vicinity ; but not near, or 

 considerable enough to have much effect on the health of the troops. 

 The country around is flat ; the soil is sandy, with a slight declination 

 to south sufficient to carry off the heavy rains into the Kallee Nuddy 

 to the eastward. 



Notwithstanding the northern latitude of Meerut, considerably 

 without the tropics, and in the third climate, the heat is intense in 

 the dry and hot season, and tropical diseases are prevalent during the 

 hot and rainy seasons. For the period of four years, from 1830 to 1833, 

 the average proportion of deaths to strength is, at Meerut, 



Officers 1*35 per cent per annum. 



Men 1-98 



Women 221 



Children 491 



The diseases are such as arise from sudden and considerable varia- 

 tions of temperature and malaria, and especially among the soldiers, 

 aggravated by exposure to the sun and intemperance. 



Dinapore. 

 In the Station of Dinapore the aspect of the Barracks being the 

 reverse of what it should have been in respect to the prevailing winds, 

 free perflation is prevented. The roof is flat and chunamed; the 

 length of each building is 800 feet, and width 20 feet; there is a 

 verandah on each side. 



