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Show THRONGS DIE OF CHOLERA. India is Visited by Another Terrible Plague. London, May 31. The Daily Express has the following from Bombay, dated yesterday: yes-terday: "An unprecedentedly severe epidemic epi-demic of cholera has broken out in the northern districts of Bombay presidency, especially in the famine camps. The deaths have increased 40 per cent within three days. In the Kaira. district there have been 1,330 deaths in seven days. The government has made a special grant of 1.000 to cremate the dead immediately. "In Palanpur state, on the first day, there was one death, on the second there were eighty-four and on the third there were upward of 400. The swiftness of the infection was due to fact that the first death was near the only available water supply. The germs were thus carried car-ried all over the camp. "In the city of Bombay there have been sixty-seven deaths in the last seven days." ' ' |