PLAGUE EPIDEMIC.
HORRIBLE SCENES AT BANGKOK
Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) Brisbane, Alay 24. Eastern files by the steamer Taiyuan show that the plague epidemic prevails from India to China. At Bangkok large bonfires were kept burning. Patients who expected to dies were carried to the vicinity of the fires to await death and then burnt. Cases occur where patients who had only swooned were thrown into the fires, when frightful shrieks and agonising screams follow, but there is no possibility ot rescue. Hideous stories are told of sick people being carried to boats and abandoned by inhuman relations afraid of infection.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2726, 24 May 1907, Page 5
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107PLAGUE EPIDEMIC. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2726, 24 May 1907, Page 5
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