THE BLACK DEATH
EIGHT THOUSAND DEATHS. SIXTEEN MEDICAL VICTIMS. (Received February 9, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Dr. Reginald Farrar, of the Local Go\enmient Board, and eldest son of the late .Dean Faner, will lepresent Great Britain .'it the International Plague Conference in China. PEKIN, February 8. There have been 8000 deaths from plague, in the pneumonic form. Sixteen Russian doctors and assistants have died. Half had previously bcou inoculated. Great difficulty is being experienced in regard to the disposal of the dead. The population of Fudsviadstan, formerly 60,000, is now 12,000. The inhabitants have chiefly migrated. EIGHT HUNDRED BODIES BURNT. BANDITS AT WORK. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) PEKIN, February 9. The authorities at Harbin have overcome the natives' aversion to cremation, and 800 bodies were burned on immense pyres on Wednesday. The doctors report that the plague has assumed a superlative septicaemia form, and death follows in four hours. Banditti) taking advantage of the general disorganisation, defied the troops. A division has been ordered from Mukden. l ■ ' *
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10161, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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169THE BLACK DEATH Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10161, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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