Patients being given soup, during the bubonic plague outbreak in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

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1897
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30088i
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Patients being given soup, during the bubonic plague outbreak in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Karachi is a port in the province of Sind (subsequently in 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

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1897

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 19 x 24.1 cm

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Distribution of soup The lettering is printed on the mount

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Wellcome Collection 30088i

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Photograph probably by Jalbhoy, R.

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