Many of the thoroughfares are entirely covered over with wooden beams plastered with mud, which entirely exclude light, and give them more the appearance of subterranean passages than streets.

The upper part of the town is the cleanest, for the simple reason that all filth and sewage runs down open gutters cut in the centre of the steep alleys, until it reaches the level of the plain.

There is no provision made for its escape.
It is allowed to collect in great pools, which in long-continued wet weather often flood the houses and drive their wretched inhabitants into the open, to live as best they may, further up the hill.
Kelat is, for this reason only, very unhealthy.

Small-pox, typhoid, and typhus are never absent, though, curiously enough, cholera visitations are rare.

The filthy habits of the inhabitants have, apparently, a good deal to do with the high death rate.