The city must be clean: sanitizing the city

In 1857 the European troops suffered high mortality rates. More died of disease than in combat

• Cleanliness became as imperative as strategic security in the reconstruction of the city. During this time knowledge of nature and cure of communicable diseases was still primitive. To secure minimum standards of health and comfort for the Europeans themselves at least the following were proposed:
  
  

• better ventilated houses

• plentiful supply of water

• good drainage system

• better disposal of refuse and sewage

• Removal of slaughter houses, leather and gas factories, burial grounds away from residential areas.

• Tanneries and their attendant chamars moved out to Moti Jheel along with the slaughter house and its kasais.

• Similarly the distillery was also removed to the outskirts.