FATE OF INDIAN GIRLS
TRAGEDY OF THE PURDAH. CALCUTTA. May 29. “Death Behind the Purdah,” is the dramatic headline in a report issued by Dr Crake, the health officer of Calcutta, who says that between the ages of 15 and 20 years fire girls die of tuberculosis for every boy who succumbs to that disease. Put brutally, Dr Crake says, these girls wore suffocated behind the purdah. The retention of the purdah system in the densefly-populated gtfllies of a congested city dooms many girls to an early death from tuberculosis. In a great city it. is difficult to secure absolute privacy without admitting light and air, as the houses and narrow lanes aro sure to be overlooked.' Therefore the zenana is usually situated in an inner portion of the house, which is ill-lighted, i!I----ventilated. and effectually screened from observation. The purdah is the curtain used for screening women from the sight of strangers while in the zenana, the part of the house in which women of high caste families in India are secluded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 17
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