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"name": "The Bubonic Plague in Bombay and Pune (1896-1897)",
"author": {
"name": "Gargi Mukherjee",
"givenName": "Gargi",
"familyName": "Mukherjee",
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"name": "Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, West Bengal"
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"description": "The Bombay plague epidemic was a bubonic plague that struck
the city of Bombay in the late nineteenth century. The plague
killed thousands, and many fled the city leading to a drastic fall
in the population of the city. In September 1896 the first case of
bubonic plague was detected in Mandvi, Bombay, by Acacio
Gabriel Viegas. It spread rapidly to other parts of the city, and
the death toll was estimated at 1,900 people per week through
the rest of the year. Many people fled from Bombay at this time,
and in the census of 1901, the population had actually fallen to
780,000. Viegas correctly diagnosed the disease as bubonic
plague and tended to patients at great personal risk
From Bombay, it spread quickly to Bengal, Punjab, the United
Provinces, and later even to Burma. However, its impact was
most severe in Western and Northern India, while southern and
eastern India escaped with relatively fewer deaths. By 1901, 4
lakh Indians were reported dead, and by 1905, the toll was 10
lakh!
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"datePublished": "2020-10-02",
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