FAMINE IN INDIA. BOMBAY, January. 6.
Severe famine prevails in the AgrajOudh, and Delhi, districts. It is feared that parts of Bengal, Punjab, TJombay, ißajputna, and Central India-, will be inTolved: > '
THE PLAGUE IN INDIA. \ r * LONDON, January 1. * SuCßradford Leslie-, an eminent&lndian engineer," 'has - . advised J Mr John " Morley, the Secretary .for' India,- to ask the Government of New -South Wales to allow Dt John Ashburton Thompson, heaE of the Health Department : of that State, to visit India -in connection with the - suppression of the plague at Bombay. * . The Parsees of 'Bombay" have independently approached Sir George ' Sydenham,
Clarke^- Governor' of the Presidency, withthe same object. ' It is understood that Dt Thompson does
not consider that a mere flying visit -will - enable him -to accomplish more than a wide dissemination throughout India of Ms paper on the prevention of plague, which was^reoently read before the" Royal College" of Medicine.. This step has alsr'eady been arranged. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 27
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