Report on the sanitary state of the city of Poona / by A.H. Leith ; with rough notes by T. Martin.

  • Leith, A. H.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Report on the sanitary state of the city of Poona / by A.H. Leith ; with rough notes by T. Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the breeze blew seventy-five and a-half days, or, altogether from those opposite eight points, two-thirds of the year:— N.N.E. 8 N.E. 10 E.N.E.21 East. 31 E.S.E. 13 S.E. 10i ^5.8).E. >••■•••0 8 South ........ 8 S S.W. 3£ S.W. .. 30J W.S.W.44 West.63y W.N.W. 35 N.W ..34^- N.N.W. 19 North .. 25 6. The temperature of the air as deduced from the records of two years at the Observatory in the cantonment was for the year Fahr. 76*5, and distributed in months it was— Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Mean .... 70-3 75*1 790 85’4 85*1 7 9*5 761 74-7 75-5 75-7 727 69-6 Maximum. . 85-8 917 95-1 101*5 100-9 94-7 83-2 83*4 GO ►U 847 83*5 84-1 7. The city, as before mentioned, has the Moota River on one side ; on the other sides it is nearly surrounded by cultivation, except¬ ing on the south-east, where a prolongation of Bhoveanee peth abuts on the Sudder Bazar of the Military cantonment. The crops raised are chiefly Joctree, Bajree, vegetables, sugarcane, and some oil-seed. The fields are hedged with milk-bush (Euphorbia tirucalii), Agave vivipara, and with prickly-pear (Opuntia Dillenii), which also largely occupies waste places, and is encroaching on both fields and roads. There are many trees also on the borders of the fields and around temples and musjids both on the outskirts and in the interior of the city. On the bank of the river and along the edges of the Nagjeree and Manik Nullah there are numerous brick-kilns with huge mounds of waste produce and dust, which have been accumulating for years. 8. Poona extends two miles east and west, and a mile and three- quarters north and south. It is divided into sections called peth ; this division is of ancient origin, and is maintained for Police or other purposes. The sections are of irregular shape, and vary much in