HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE.
TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS,
Received May 24, 10.25 a.m. BRISBANE, May 24
Eastern files by the steamer Taiynan show that plague epidemics prevail 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 and await death. They are then burned.
Cases occur where patients who have only swooned are thrown into the fire, when frightful shrieks and agonising screams follow, but there is no possibility of rescue. Hideous stones are told of sick people being carried to boats and abandoned by their inhuman relations, who are afraid of infection.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8448, 25 May 1907, Page 5
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108HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8448, 25 May 1907, Page 5
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