Man being injected by doctor, during the outbreak of bubonic
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Doctor Simmonds injecting his curative serum in a plague patient, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
Photograph probably by Jalbhoy, R.
The lettering is printed on the mount
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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