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Plague-infected house which has been demolished, Karachi, In
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Plague-infected house which has been demolished, Karachi, In
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Gow Sitani street with dangerous house demolished, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

Photograph probably by Jalbhoy, R.

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At the height of the epidemic in Karachi, in one week, 102 dwellings were condemned, 130 recommended for alteration and 4000 altered

Karachi is a port in the province of Sind (now [1996] Pakistan). It was placed in quarantine in 1882, during the outbreak of bubonic plague which spread from Bombay. The Plague Committee consisted mostly of volunteers, who were organised into parties and were responsible for the segregation and inoculation of various districts

Contained in an album of photographs which show the work of the Karachi Plague Committee in 1897

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Keywords: Karachi Plague Committee (India)
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