LIFE IN TIBET
BRITISH MISSION’S REPORT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, December 27. A British Mission has returned from Tibet. It reports that it discovered that the inhabitants of one village do not intermarry with those of the next. In every village polyandry is practised, and if the women outnumber the men polygamy is practised. Smallpox was_ found to be very prevalent. Bronchial disease is scarce, but syphilis is the greatest scourge, from which a large proportion of the people is suffering. Everywhere there is poverty and lack of enterprise commercially. Nothing is produced' but wool and carpets, but the country is fascinating for its sporting and for its geographical discoveries. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 4
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115LIFE IN TIBET Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 4
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