Show PLAGUE SWEPT INDIA in ten years there have been deaths mortality increasing london during the first three and a halt months of 1907 the deaths the plague in india to the heaviest monthly mortality yet reported during the epidemic ac cording to the indian world this would appear to show that the present year will exhibit a record number 0 deaths the plague records for the ten years october 1896 to december 1908 show that there was a large annual increase from 1901 to 1901 the deaths numbering la 1901 in 1902 in 1903 and 1 in 1904 the worst I 1 ear in ten years thare was a small decrease in 1905 the deaths falling to and a large decrease in 1906 when there were only the total deaths for the whole ten years numbered 4 the improvement which was shown in the two years 1903 and 1906 has not unfortunately been maintained from the first appearance of the disease up to the year 1901 the mor was greatest in the bombay presidency but from 1902 onward with one exception the worst area bae been the punjab and in 1906 the deaths in the latter province alone numbered |