PLAGUE IN INDIA
MANY DEATHS PANIC-STRICKEN RESIDENTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received + his day at 9.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October 19. Over five hundred have died ‘rom a plague epidemic in the town of Sangh, in tihe Bombay Presidency. The town is almost deserted, and thousands of inhabitants have fled, panic stricken, carrying the infection to surrounding villages. Numbers of them were inoculated, but there is a heavy -daily mortality. The plague i* also reported ill Secunderabad in the Deccan, where there- have been 190 deaths in three months
Sixty per cent, of the inhabitants evacuated the town and are residing in huts on the outskirts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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106PLAGUE IN INDIA Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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