From Our Own Correspondents, IN, Feb. 20.
Tam glad to be able to report that the PI here is being kept ander splendidly by the vigorous and well-organized efforts of the Plague P: Considering the calties to contend with ins great city like this, with so many roads entering it from all sides, and the ignorance of the people, and their unwillingness to report cases occurring in their midst, we have got off very easily thus far. Bince January 13 when the first case was reported, until the 17th instant, there been' 240 deaths, The daily death roll for a week or ten days has been ten to fifteen and is not Knanchentze is still _safforing terribly. Ten days ago the death rate there was as high as 130 to 140 daily. The last few days it has fallen to 80 or a The official figures of the fatal cases in Harbin for November, December and, January and the firet fire days of February, are 4,405, and probably this is not an over-statement, for it comes from most reliable me Plague is spreading in the villages and market towns, bat no trustworthy figares are available. I should say that, Province alone has lost at least 10,000 lives.
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