the health of Troops in Arracan. 195 



There are no tanks as in Bengal, but water is readily 

 obtained by sinking wells 30 or 40 feet through the sand 

 and a bluish clay which lies beneath it. The water is neces- 

 sarily impregnated with salt. 



Khyouk Phyoo has long been the head quarters of the N. I. 

 corps in the province. The native town is built with regularity, 

 and is fully a mile apart from the lines and the bungalows of 

 the officers. Their bungalows are built along the sea-shore, 

 are all raised on piles, and generally glazed and comfortable : 

 they enjoy the full benefit of the sea breeze. The lines have 

 been lately rebuilt and are also raised on piles : they are admi- 

 rable, and situated about half a mile from the sea : about a 

 quarter of a mile further back is the hospital, which was a 

 spacious well-raised building with glazed windows, but unfor- 

 tunately placed on the lowest piece of ground which it was 

 possible to select, and where the fog always lies heaviest and 

 longest in the morning. On the recent occasion of the hos- 

 pital being burnt down, and its having to be rebuilt, it might 

 have been hoped that a better site would have been adopted. 

 Probably the best site for a hospital is the rising ground 

 about half-way between the lines and the native town, on 

 which the jail is placed. Great improvements have of late 

 been made in the jail, and the buildings have been made 

 puckah ; the filthy huts of burkandauzes, which surrounded 

 it, have also been removed. 



On the side of the creek a nasty salt jheel runs up to with- 

 in about a mile of the back of the station. It is probably 

 impossible to do much in the way of improving it, but the 

 wind very rarely blows from this quarter. 



A review of the localities of Khyouk Phyoo gives the im- 

 pression that it ought to be an excellent station for troops ; 

 some regiments have of late years been quite healthy, as are 

 Europeans in general ; yet at times it has been exceedingly 

 unhealthy both to Europeans and to natives. The morta- 

 lity of the station seems, however, never to have exceeded, 



