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Show The plague that Is ravaging the Pun. Jaub ind causing a thousand deaths a da is no dou'u the same old bubonic plat, tie w hoe dls istrous v islts have not ben infiaquent nnd always unfailingly errlflc It Is said that this mortality occurs now under 'the new leglmo of non-intervention That means, wo presume that the Urltlsh authorities Iiavo contoded to the natives the privilege privi-lege of ding In p. ace, without bother soma visits of Inspectors, doctors nnd the deeply objectionable enforcement of remedies and sanitary observances I-vcr since this visitation of tho plague to India (It is now in Its third yeir there) the Inhabitants have deepl resented re-sented tho activity of the British authorities au-thorities ami doctors in tricing the afflicted and trlng to do something for them, those suffering from tho dls-ease dls-ease would be hidden, and alt l.novvl. engo of the case, known to be In a house would be firmly denied by the residents therein. Any discovery of a patient und his (or her, even worse) re-moved re-moved to a hospital would be resented bo fiercely ns In somo cases to cause a riot This was largel due to tho so-clal so-clal rules of caste In India, which a promiscuous treatment In hospitals would completel Ignore, and paitly to a fatalism and submission to tho sup-ioed sup-ioed will of Clod, against which It were useless to light The'awful losses of life teach those people nothing, they are deuf to oil argument and per-suasion, per-suasion, nnd would nther suffer death than the supposed degrud itlon of violating vio-lating tho rules of caste, or of resisting the divine will |