Plague Spots in Calcutta
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At the present time considerable alarm is felt in Europe, lest the plague now raging in Mesopotamia should find its ?way to the cities and repeat in them the history of 1665 in London. But though European cities have some highly cultivated pestilence grounds, ready to yield an abundant crop of death, they have not yet reached the destructive power of a Calcutta " bustee." And yet how complacently we view these
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Dr. H. M. Crake
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