PLAGUE HORRORS
HIDEOUS STORIES OF PATIENTS' TREATENT. Brisbane, May 24. Eastern hies by the steumer TiUyuan show that a plague epidemic prevails from India to China. At Bangkok large bonfires are kept "burning. Patients who are expected to die are carried to the vicinity of the fires to await death, and their bodies are then burnt. Cases occur .where patients have only swooned and are thrown into the fire, "when frightful shrieks and agonising screams follow, but there is no possibility of rescue. Hideous stories are toM of sick people being carried to boats and then abandoned by their inhuman relations, who are afraid of infection.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 May 1907, Page 2
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106PLAGUE HORRORS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 May 1907, Page 2
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