SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC
OUTBREAK IN PUNJAB. United Press Association—By El octrie Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, December 22. The absence of rain is 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, due to bad sanitation and food adulteration. Of 2000 contracting the disease during the last twelve months, 600 haw* died.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 17
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