PLAGUE
OUTBREAK IN INDIA. A HEAVY MORTALITY. (Received Thursday, 10.20 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Wednesday. Over 500 persons have died of the plague epidemic in the- town of Sangli, in the Bombay Presidency. The town is almost deserted as thousands of the inhabitants lied panic-stricken, carrying the infection to the surrounding villages. Numbers have been inoculated, but there is a heavy daily mortality. Plague is also reported in Secunderabad, where there- have been 190 deaths in three months. Sixty percent. of the inhabitants have evacuated the town and are residing in huts on the outskirts.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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