300 Smallpox Deaths
(N Z Press Assn —Copyright) LONDON. March 29
Panic was reported to be rising in the Gaya district of Bihar State after the dea h in the last two and a half months of more than 300 people from smallpox the Associated Press reported from Calcutta
Gaya Town has become the centre of thousands of Hindus and Moslems trekking to the temples and mosques of the city to pray day and night for their lives
More than 100 have died of smallpox in Gaya Town itself and almost 1000 are down with either smallpox I or measles, the Bihar Gov-1 ernment sa d The outbreak shows no signs of ending I
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 11
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