

378 Medical History of H. M. \5th Hussars. 



Sbtttion M. 



Position of Barracks and Hospitals, with the extent and the nature of the accommodation 

 they afford— Means of ventilation, &c. 



Description of Barracks. 



Site elevated and dry, on a gentle slope : erected in 

 1808, and consists of eight ranges running north and south, 

 calculated to hold 672 men. 



Were it not that the married families live in patcherries, 

 and for the number of men in hospital or on duty, they would 

 be incapable of holding 712 men, the present strength of the 

 corps, without injurious crowding. 



Each room is 224 feet long, 20 wide, 12 high, having 

 eight doors and thirty-two windows, surrounded by an 8-feet 

 verandah : at the corners are four rooms for non-commis- 

 sioned officers, with one door and three windows each. 



The ranges are 126 feet apart, and 58 feet from the south, 

 and 400 feet from the north wall ; this latter space being 

 used for parade, &c. 



The whole is surrounded by a 9-feet high wall, having 

 three entrances and one wicket, and contains Barrack rooms, 

 officers' guard-room above the archway, standard guard- 

 room, three rooms for prisoners, serjeant-major's quarters, 

 solitary cells, orderly room, ball court, artificers' and tailors' 

 shops, sadler-serjeant's quarters, skittle alley, theatre, can- 

 teen, privies, armourer-serjeant's quarters, school-room, 

 school-master's quarters, married soldiers' huts, regimental 

 serjeant-major's quarters, trumpet-major's quarters, defaulters' 

 room, gram godown, regimental store-room, two wells and 

 eight bathing rooms. 



The horses are picqueted on the outside in the open air 

 on the south parade. The Barracks are good, but the veran- 

 dahs are too narrow, and almost useless from being unen- 

 closed, and badly ventilated from the doors and windows 

 being of solid plank, and admission of fresh air being attend- 



