An affluent family forced to leave their home due to plague in their neighbourhood sitting outside temporary huts in a camp: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

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1896
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37092i
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An affluent family forced to leave their home due to plague in their neighbourhood sitting outside temporary huts in a camp: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1896

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen, gold toned ; sheet 21 x 26.5 cm

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No. 15 - A well-to-do Hindu family who had to leave their own house and live in huts at Malad (Salsette) during the prevalence of plague in their neighbourhood. Lettering printed on small separate sheet and attached to mount

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Mridula Ramanna, 'Plague in Bombay', Wellcome History, 2007, 35: 1-4 (photograph reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 37092i

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