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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917.

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PLAGUE IN INDIA

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Delhi, November 15-A memoran- dam by the Sanitary Commissionar with the Government of Indis on the present aspect of the prevalence of plague in India has been issued. The memorandum natater that in no year since 1904 has the plague mortality of

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, India in the month of October exoceded

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LORD WORLEY.

INTERESTING, MEMOIRSOS

YISITORS AT THE HOTELA.

HONGKONG HUTH

Recollections pablished by Mossrs Mr G. E Anderson Capt. Tils Lamen In Lord Moclay's two volumes of Mr D. Abraham" Mr and Mrs Lander Macmillan there are nearly awo hundred Mise A. Anderson D.de Lssignan pages relating to the Indian Secretary Geo. & Archbuttheand C ship of State, made up from letters to Lord Minto with occasional Me 0. F.

weekly

Mr H. Murray Bain Lauritsen

1 Meland MGSJAJA connecting links. The

replies are pos much light in thrown on the inner Me WE Birker given but their drift can be inferred and Mes Z. Baring history of five years of what Lord Mr W. Neil Bariter

the most delicato a war and Mrs H. A. Mr. M. Lopes TA

that of last month. There were l

Farter approximately 43,600 deaths reported, mutual understanding between them Capt. J. Baxter

problems. He claims that the good. as compared with 73,800 in the corres-ever failed but the letters show Master Baxter

frequent differences of opinion, especially E. R. Balilios ponding month of the previous year, or the question of the constitutional Mr H, J. Bell

relations between Whitehall and Simlar Q. D. J. Bell and on the desire of the Indian Govern [ment" to adopt stronger measure for

the repression of unrest

A study of the behaviour of plague in India during the last twenty years," continues the memorandum, leads one to expect a steady rise in plague mortality from October to March or April and thereafter a rapid decline At first sight, then, the outlook is extremely black but the situation is not quite as serious as it appears to be The Bombay Presidency has contributed 46 per cent of the total plague mortality

Mr Babongfield We G. Endin Major and Mrs D

Mactionald Miss Macfarlane Me and

Men F Kaitland MrW R. Marke Mr Mrs D. M. Dr and Mr

Marriott Biebeck MFH. E Maslin Mr and Mrs A. L. Mr G. H. May

Houst

Mr J. Hereckt Mr and Mrs B. Mrs Mitchell

Braddell Mr But Mrs A. 8. Capt. & Mrs Ranch Montgomery lie Weth Howell Me & he Mr And Mra A. J. Mr J. 8.1

Van BoatenKr 8 litererons

Mrs. Gu

Carpanael Miss E. Pencilla

Phelps Flunkett Mr J. GPooley

It is now clear that Lord Morley coined the famous phrase about the Viceroy State Writing in 1908 with reference being the agent of the Recretary of to Lord Minto's objections to an entgate with Russia on a basis of Central Asian bargaining, he

he said were determined on the the Cabinet COUTSO and it was for their agents and officers through Mr N. Bart the world to accept in H He denied the Hr LA Calderon Omoria right of the Indian Government to be e

Mr & Mrs fully

And frequently asked carde informed b by telegraph of RF Me P. & Potts

for October, 1917. Outbreaks of plague as cone before an arrement.Miss Carpmaal Mr and Mrs 8. G.

districts of the United Provinces. Of

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be kept in this ares usually reach their height il developments

Colo about the present acason of the year with the present King on his return Me J.D. Courte

Lord Morley relates conversation Dr & Mer J. Coronellate J. F. Preston, Jr. The next month or so is likely to see a from his Indian tour in 1906. attributing Mr R Daurellen and 3children

F. Prescon decline of plague mortality in Bombay, to him many very cleats correct and Me W. B. Darssport Mr. sid. Mie B. though the distribution of the disease and notions. His keyword war that M-O: Datis Findicates that this decline is likely to be trators, showed wider

we should get on better if our adminis. Mrs. E Fanalt less rapid than usual The most Prince spoke wit

•H_J. Fruin very kumple

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Mr. M. reassuring feature of the situation is the and of the splendour of our task. Be Mr J. C. Cinder

affected

enthusiasm of all he had seen present limited distribution of infection talked of National in the Punjab and in the western rapidly becoming a great power.

The letters show how steadily Lord Mr J. the six hundred plagua deaths reported first place of the ax Cabinet including Capt. T

Hall

EV. Slight from the Punjab in October five hundred Lord Ripon and all through the reign Mr.D Hangossart Mr. B. Simmons ocsarred in Rawalpindi. The conditions Indians to the Viceregal Council and also

Edward,

tor the

appointment of Mra

Mr and Mrs W. A. Mrs M. Slada would be relatively satisfactory in these how he resisted the stong desire of King Hr G. Harper, Mr.A. 8 Spafford parts of India were not the atmospheric Mr. Asquith, to accede to Lord Kit-Me D. Haarall Edward, apparently partly shared by Mrs A. Harris humidity at present being reported sochener's wish to succeed Lord Minto

Mrs J. G. Hay appreciably in excess of the normal. His objection was that the impression Mis dodgine. Mr and Mrs A. P.

AL Hodge Excessive humidity in the winter made in India by sending our greatest Mr and Mrs Paul Stokes

soldier to follow the reforms would make | months in the Punjab and the United them look a practical

Hodgson Mr H. F. Stopchem paradox. Provinces has been the invariable Lord Merley relates that at Windear MrW.Hoogewer Mr LH. Tasker precursor of severe plague epidemics

in 1907 the Kaiser seriously put him MrA. Shelton Hooper Mr C. P. Templeton through bis paces about India When MCI Hope Mr. Theyskins "The distribution of infection in the east of the United Provinces indicates an outbreak of rather more than average intensity in the districts surrounding

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Mr W. H. Smith

Mr A. W. P. Spiers Ifr J. Stalker, Mr

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Lord Morley, apoke of the impossibility Capt and Mrs: R. Mr. F. G. Thompers of foresating the

the British rule in India in future the Raiser vehemently exclaimed Miss E Jacobson MFW. J.

Innes-

Capt. F. N. Tyson that British rule would last for ever Capt, &

Mrs B at the time with reference to the Baghdad Mr B. M. Joseph Me RW-Weymath Lord Morley mentions important talks Jones

Mes J.T. Wearne One of the impressions the Mr and Mrs M. E. Mr S. T. Williamson Kaiser

Mr.G. G. Wood mind of everybody by

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autbreak of some severity in the Jhansi hiter dicthink the interests of Mr and Mrs T. H, Mrs G. E. H. Yong (LowDON, BANKKRS-Lornoor CoUNTY AND | PIRAMO,

district, a part of India that has suffered very little from plague in the past. Hyderabad is experiencing a mare severe the conditions are unlikely to show any outbreak than that of last year Here marked improvement before January.

situation are the prevailing conditions "The most uncertain factors in the in the Central India and Rajputana Native States. In Central Indis, where the disease is widespread, the outbreak has probably reached its height. In Rajputana, where the disease is very much more prevalent than. ever. before at this time of the year, each epidemic except one has attained its maximum intensity in March or April. The climatic. conditions that have been experienced this year in Rajputana are so abnormal as to render any, attempts at a forecast more than usually bazardans but it can be said that the plague cutlook there gives occasion for anxiety,

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To sum up, the present plague out look in India is black but, provided that the cold weather mouths in the Panjab and the United Provinces be not characterised by atmospheric humidity appreciably in excess of the normal, it is unlikely that India will experients anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous 1804-05, 1906-07, and 1910-11"

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