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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 27, 24 October 1884, Page 3

The ravages of the plague in Asia Minor have of late been much greater in proportion to the population than those of the cholera along the Mediterranean. The epidemic has been most viruleot in the vilayet of Bagdad. At Berd, in that distiicr, a place which contains scarcely 4,000 persons, there were 770 deaths iv two months. The mortality was much slighter in the other portions of the vilayet. Quarantine has been established at Bakud and Kat-el-Amara. on the left bank at the Tigris. The panic in the infected area is described by a iiars newspaper as being terrible in its effects. All who possess the means have left, and a large proportion of those remaining are plague-stncken. The poor creatures can obtain neither nursing nor medicine, owing to the miserable terror of those who have not been attacked. When an epidemic does attack an Asiatic district, the reimlt is unfortunately only too well known. Even with the Mussulman, cleanliness does not extend beyond the person ; while Banitary science, even in ite most primitive forms, is undreamed of,