SCORES DYING DAILY
INDIAN PLAGUE OUTBREAK
SWEEPING HYDERABAD STATE
CITY DEATH BOLL OF 7000
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. DELHI, Jan. 9. A plague epidemic is sweeping the Hyderabad State. Over 7000 deaths have occurred in Hyderabad alone.
So virulent i-s the epidemic in that quarter that the population of Secunderabad lias vacated its homes. Infection is very rapid and the percentage of recoveries is -small. Scores are dying daily.
The authorities are conducting a vigorous campaign against rats, which are carriers of the disease.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 5
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