909. Drainage of jail land. Sanitary defects to be reported.
(1)The drainage of the land round the jail should receive careful attention and all low ground be filled up with clean earth. High crops should not, both for sanitary reasons and as affording convenient cover to any prisoner escaping or attempting to escape, be grown within 50 yards of the jail walls.(2)It is the duty of the Medical Officer to bring to notice any defects of drainage within the jail area or its vicinity. The construction of public latrines, sewers or drains or the existence of any other insanitary condition in the neighbourhood of the jail, likely to affect the health of the prisoners, shall be reported to the Inspector-General.Water Supply
