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Temuka Leader, Issue 805, 24 December 1881, Page 3

THE PLAGUE AT BAGDAD The cable an noum-ement that the Turkish Government has forbidden the Furki-h neu spapers to publish reports of i the B igchul plague which continues to bo I unfavorable, reveals the horrors of a calamity which the outside world little I susp“c!s. It seems probable that the ravages of tins dread disease in (he land which was the cradle of the human race, have but fairly commenced, and we s 1 a'l not be unprepared for startling i n t- Hi - geuce of its progress The plague of 1881 did not set in at Bagdad till near the close of Mac h, and even as late as the 4th of April that year the deaths were not more than 150 a day. But this mortality was nothing with what followed. Defvitm not only all curable but alleviating medn cal treatment, it made rapid strides and by Ap;il 10th the daily mortality rose to I 1000 or more, and by the 20th had j doubled this rate in a, population not exceeding 80,000, of whh-h nearly one hi If, , it was estimated, had fled the limits of (he city, In that month ah n * not leas than ! 150,000 sou s perished from that s.-ourg ■. j The inundation of (ho Tigris at the end of I the month, according to an eye-witness, | swept away 7000 houses, burying the sick, the dying, and the dead, with many in health, in one common grave.” it was only with the cessation of the spring vaina in May and the arrival of clear wemhe’, that, either the pestilence or the flood was stayed, or food could be gotten into tire ; <%■

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