Jpcdical Dnus. Fever at Srinagar.?There is a great deal of fever Srinagar Dr. Aiitra, the chief Medical Officer of Kashmir, has returned from leave, before its expiry, to Srinagar, and is making arrangements for free medical aid to the sufferers. in

Cholera at Rawal Pindi.? Rawal Pindi city has been of bounds for all troops in the Rawal Pindi account of the breaking out of cholera.

placed out garrison on

Cholera casks in the Hills.?There has been cholera on the Simla Road; 17 deaths out of 28 seizures have been reported.

Cholera the 10th

at

Mian

Mir ?Cholera has broken out in

Bengal Cavalry

at

Mian Mir.

Laying the Foundation-stone of the Bengal Veterinary Institution.?The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Bengal Veterinary School" and Hospital was performed by Sir Charles Elliott in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering of European and Native gentlemen. The site chosen is in the Bel gaehia Road, a short distance from the Dum-Dum railway station. A large shamiana was erected on the spot, and under this, the cer.emony was performed and speeches were made, the whole of the surroundings being gay with flags and buntiug. Dr. Koilas Chunder after relating the circumstance by which the present movement had arisen, requested His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal to lay the foundation-stone. Dr Kenneth McLeod seconded the request, and with becoming pride referred to the pleasure he felt in being permitted to see in that day's proceedings the consummation of the hopes aud efforts of nearly 25 years. Sir Charles Elliott in a verv complimentary speech dwelt on the services rendered in thi=i direction by Dr. McLeod, and concluded by saying that hp heartily rejoiced that it was his privelege that day to assist in giving the first impulse to the actual erection of this instihi tionjby laying the foundation-stone, and he was srlnd fn it will be heard of in the future by the names the benefits which have been conferred uuon it bv Sir Dinshaw Petit, Dr. Kenneth and Babu Shewbux

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Bogla.

Conservancy

in Calcutta.?In the last quarterly Municipality, the possibility of the collapse of lown Conservancy service is brought into prominence. report is as follp-ws,?" The ever-increasing quantity of

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refuse to be disposed of is making this work correspondingly difficult of performance, and on several occasions, the escape from absolute collapse of the contractor's arrangements has been a very narrow one. The supply of empty wagons at the town refuse platforms has only been maintained at the expense of much extra shunting at the lakes and of special trains; and the neuessityfor putting the unloading contract on a more satisfactory footing is most urgent and pressing. The situation is certainly a very grave one, and if the conditions are not speedily ameliorated, the coolie recruiting seasor; will be over, and there will be very serious danger of a c llapse of the town conservancy with its attendant sanitary risks. The detention of wagons at the Lakes was 057 during the quarter as against 402 of the previous one. Bills for demurrage have been made out and sent for realisation. The want of sufficient labour on the part of the contractor makes itself felt also in the matter of levelling off old deposits. The refuse-accumulations heaped up by the side of, aud nearly blocking, the various lines of railway amounted at the close of the quarter to over 30 lacs of cubic feet. The daily accretions since have been, roughly speaking, at the rate of not less than 25,000 cubic feet, and against these and the old accufeet mulation there have been about 12 00,000 cubic levelled olf. All this tends to but one result?'collapse." more

Opening ov New Water-works at Jaiyira.?Lord Harris opened the new water-works at Jaiyira on Thursdayand, after visiting the Anglo-Vernacular School, re-embark, ed and proceeded to Alibag. Abnormal Heat in India.?The Meteorological Deshow that all over India, except in Burma, the temperature is much above the average. In the Punjab, Ilajputann, and Smd it is already 15 degrees above the normal.

partment reports

Veterinary Department.?The Home authorities are out four Veterinary Surgeons for the Army Veterinary Department in India. They will fill vacancies caused by transfers from the Army Veterinary Department to the Civil Veterinary Department, which has been recently sanctioned.

sending

Opening of the Tansa Water-works at Bombay by Viceroy?In the course of his sp-ech. His Excellency referred to the magnitude of the work in the following terms :?" You have no perennial stream at hand, from whence, by a simple process of diversion, your city could be furnished with an abundance of water. You have no lakes like Loch Katrine from which the City of Glasgow draws an unfailing supply. The climatic peculiarities of India impose upon you the onerous condition of providing a storage reservoir sufficiently large to collect during the rainy season a quantity of water adequate to provide for your wants during the remainder of the year. You have had to go far a-field, over 50 miles I believe, to discover a suitable catchment area in which to imprison the monsoon rainfall ; while the subsidiary work connected with conducting the water from the lake to the city has involved the construc ion of aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, syphons, and other large works of hydraulic engineering. It is no small thing to be able to say that, in order to procure for Bombay a supply of pure water, you have erected the largest masonry dam in the world?a dam the construction of which has necessitated the acquisition of an area of over 5,000 acres of land, and which has resulted in the creation of a lake with an area of nearly six square miles. Well, Gentlemen, you are, I believe, in a position to claim that these efforts are likely to be crowned by a measure of success even greater than was anticipated by the most sanguine supporters of the project. (Hear, hear, and applause.) In the first place, the quality of the water proves to be not only undeniable, but considerably purer than that furnished by either of the Tulsi or Vehar reservoirs, and it will be the first year's collection is drawn off. In purer still when point of quantity the works were expected to provide a daily supply of 17,000,000 of gallons. It has been ascertained that they will, as a matter of fact, provide 21,000,000 the

[May

1892.

of gallons, or 40 gallons per head of the population. I believe you will be able to say with perfect truth that no city in the world, considering its requirements, will be more liberally provided with pure water than the city of Bombay. This liberal supply, however, by no means exhausts the capabilities, for you have, I understand, at Tansa a storage equivalent to 27.000.000 of gallons per day, and you will be able, at any moment by laying an additional pipe, to increase your supply to 26,000,000, of gallons per day, while if the increasing requirements of the city should require a still larger amount?a contingency which we certainly cannot regard as by any means improbable? the available storage could, by raising the height of the dam, be increased to no less than 68,00 >,000 of gallons per

day.

To complete your triumph it has been ascertained that whereas it was expected that the rainfall of 80 or 90 inches would be necessary to fill the Tansa Lake, a rainfall of eveu 40 inches will be sufficent for the purpose, so that even in the driest seasons you need have no apprehension as to the sufficiency of your supply. (Heai-, hear, and applause.) The benefits of such a supply of water to your great and growing population cannot be overrated. It is ou record that 290 years ago a traveller who visited the Island declared, not only that provisions were scarce and bad, but that the unhealthiness of the water bore a just proportion to the scarcity and meanness of the diet. It is a pity that we cannot recall that traveller to life and show him your splendid markets, which I remember visiting when I was here in 188S, and which a predecessor of mine declared to be finer than those of any great city in Europe, and the works which we are to open this evening. There will not be a resident in the city?from His Excellency at Malabar Point to the dweller in the humblest Native bazaar?who will not be a gainer by what you have done. There is no result of European civilization in India which I look upon with more unmixed satisfaction than I do upon the great waterworks which so many of our principal cities have lately called into existence. I never look at a stand pipe in a dusty street without feeling that here at least is something which our civilization has done for the country, and which has conferred upon it an absolutely unmixed advan-

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