Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria : medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments., jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862 / by Duncan Macpherson.

MacPherson, Duncan, M.D., 1812-1867.

Date:: 1862

Credit: Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria : medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments., jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862 / by Duncan Macpherson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$nniTISH lUJRMAlI. SERIES X Section I- Plan of Canton- ment. Artillery and EurSpean In- fantry Lines. The proposed new plan of the Cantonment is submitted hy the E.xecutive Engineer. Tile Committee having carefully examined the same, is of opinion that the space allotted for the barracks, both of the Artillery and Euro-} pean Infantrj', is far too circumscribed, and, as regards Infantry, propose) i alterations as |^in annexed. reAused plan. The space for the.se lines to extend from A B to C D, namely, to the road running close in rear of the Native Infantry barracks. Officer’s houses to be thrown back and occupy the Avhole western face ofC, D- Soldiers’ Gardens. Commissariat. Engineer’s Yard. Limits of Can- tonment. Native Infantry Lines. The loAv ground marked E to be partially reclaimed and conA'crtcd into Soldiers’ Gardens. Commissariat Godowns to be transferred to the house knoAvn as Colonel Dudgeon’s, marked E ; the aaEoIc of the ground now occupied by the Commissariat to be given up to the European hospitals, and buildings attached thereto. The Executive Engineer’s yard to be removed to the south, marked I (near Captain Duff’s hou.se.) The limits of the Cantonment to be extended to the south, to a pillar to be erected, between Captain Duff’s house and the old pagoda, and extending westA\’'ard to G, as marked in the noAv plan, the intermediate loAV ground to be drained, roads made, and trees planted, drained and kept as a grass meadow. The high ground now occupied by the elephant sheds to the south- west of the present Native Infantry parades to be reserved for the Native Infantry Regiments and Officers’ quartens, as may hereafter;, be determined on. Budder Bazaar. Artillery. The Sudder bazaar being at present in close contiguity Avith the European barracks is most objectionable. The high ground to die north of the present cattle sheds, is propo,sed for the Sudder bazaar. The site in the plan marked II for stal^les and horsekeepei-s i.s most objectionable, on account of its vicinity to the troops. It is propo.scd that the buildings for horsekeepers, and the stables .should be placed on the spot now marked for the hospital, &c., the hospital buildings being brought to the vacated ground and also extended to the Officeis’ com])oumls, in the line wlicrc the quarters of the Brigade Major are designated in the plan noAV submitted, f i.$

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