and all its accompanying horrors of disease, and above all, spread of plague. Though we have not yet had the official declaration of the famine, we all know it is inevitable. It is a universal saying that it takes two years' failure of rain to constitute real famine, this season's scarcity is particularly disastrous, as the country has scarcely had time to recover from the famine of '97. In the Deccan, where there is almost more scarcity than elsewhere, plague is steadily creeping up nearer and nearer to Hydrabad state. Were it to take root in this city, the result would be terrible, as the city is a very overcrowded one and the havoc it would create, bei in s native State, where European sanitary rules would be impossible to enforce, would be fearful. In Poona city and cantonment the increase of plague has been so rapid that." Government contemplates giving special grants for evacuation camps." The one hope that is left us is that as some of the Northern Provinces have had a particularly good crops, they may be able to assi grain to help in some way to mitigate the sufferings of the famine which is inevitably coming on us,
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