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Show Wild Animals. It is a remarkable fact that,, in spite of the opening out of the country by railways and roads and the clearing of jungle tracts, the number of persons killed by wild animals in British India does not show any decrease; in fact, last year, .we gather from the Lancet, the figures rose to 2,166, an actual increase of 200 in comparison with the deaths in 1907. In Bengal tigers killed 100 more persons, while in the central provinces and Berar the increase was 64. In the Chanda district one tiger alone killed 19 people before it was shot, while panthers pan-thers and bears accounted for 95 practically prac-tically double the total of the preceding year. In the United provinces the mortality mor-tality was 194, against 159. As to the deaths from snake bite, the decrease was very satisfactory, the numbers falling from 21,419, to 19,738. This total was the lowest since 1897. |