The Bubonic Plague.
(Per Press Association.) Calcutta, January 21. Professor Haffkine is reported to bare discovered a vaccine which acts as a protection against the Bubonic plague. Consequent on the spread of the plague in India the authorities of Malta have prohibited all vessels from India calling at that Port. A similar interdict was placed upon steamers from Australia which have called at Aden. The mortality from the plague at Bombay has reached 470 per week. Paris, January 20. Owing to the plague the transit of Indian goods has been prohibited in Franco and Algeria.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 172, 23 January 1897, Page 2
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95The Bubonic Plague. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 172, 23 January 1897, Page 2
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