SMALLPOX IN INDIA.
Disease Raging Through Punjab. 1000 DEATHS AT LAHORE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 23, 10.35 a.m.) CALCUTTA, December 23. The absence of rain was responsible for a severe epidemic of smallpox in many towns and villages in the Punjab, nearly 1000 dying in eight weeks at Lahore, where tuberculosis is also rampant, due to bad sanitation and food adulteration. Of the 2000 who have contracted the disease during the last twelve months, 600 have died.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 23 December 1932, Page 1
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