SMALLPOX IN INDIA
HEAVY DEATH ROLL. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) Calcutta, December 22. The absence of rain has been responsible for a severe epidemic of smallpox in many towns and villages of the Punjab, nearly 1000 dying in eight weeks at Lahore, where tuberculosis is also rampant. This is due to bad Sanitation and food adulteration. Of 2000 contracting the disease during the last twelve months 600 have died.
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Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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70SMALLPOX IN INDIA Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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