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SEVERE EPIDEMIC IN INDIA
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received Dee. 23rd. at 10.35 a.m.) CALCUTTA!, December 23.
The absence of rain is responsible for a severe epidemic of smallpox in 'annv towns and villages in the Punjab. Nearly, one thousand have died in eight weeks at Lahore where tuberculosis is also rampant, due to bad sanitation and food adulteration. Two thousand have contracted the disease during the lost twelve months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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72SMALLPOX Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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