Half asleep, all would gather near the bathrooms and continue to doze while standing, as there were only two washrooms for 30 men.
At this time, Baba stressed renewed attention toward cleanliness in the Manzil. The men's bedrooms, and especially the kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, and dining room were ordered to be kept immaculate. Baba also became more fastidious toward his own personal cleanliness. He would lather with soap very liberally during his daily bath and stressed the necessity of keeping his clothes, sheets, and pillows spotlessly clean. He separated his own kitchen from the mandali's, and Gustadji would cook for him.
Since moving into Manzil-e-Meem, the men would sit on the floor irrespective of whether it was damp or cold; but during October, the Master ordered all to sit on a mat. To remove drinking water from the earthenware pots, a metal ladle was kept hanging nearby; no one was permitted to dip their glass directly into the pot to extract water. A rule was also made against going to the toilet with one's sandals on; special wooden sandals were kept near the toilets for that purpose. A stricter attitude towards sanitation took place in the everyday routine relating to living, drinking and eating in the Manzil, and observing cleanliness in every matter assumed the highest importance.
As a further step toward cleanliness, each of the men was asked to kill 50 mosquitoes daily to avoid contracting malaria. This gave rise to amusing scenes in the house. Each man would lunge to every corner and wall of the Manzil, trying to kill his "daily quota" by swatting the flying pests any way he could. By the end of the day, their hands had become so stained with the blood of mosquitoes, they joked that they looked like butchers returning home after a hard day's work in a slaughterhouse.
On the afternoon of 10 October 1922, Baba asked Ghani to remind him about the matter of killing mosquitoes when he was having his dinner. In the evening, when Ghani was about to remind him according to his instruction, Baba forbade him to utter a single word until he had finished his meal. Thereafter Baba scolded Ghani, "You have failed in following my order because you did not remind me at seven o'clock about the mosquitoes."
Ghani replied, "I had not forgotten, but before I could say a word you ordered me not to talk until you had finished eating."