India's long immunity from serious earthquakes has been sadly breached in the last two years. On It 25, 1934, disaster occurred to Bihar and it grievously struck the Independent Kingdom of Nepal. The total casualties were believed to produce a death-roll of 10,000 in Bihar:
the same figure in Nepal. For a calamity" of that magnitude the Ghroniclers had to go back to April 1905, when the Kangra Valley earthquake caused the loss of 20,000 lives. including the complete destruction the hill station of Dharmsala, where 185 persons perished, among, them 25 Europeans and 12. officers men of a. Gurkha battalion. Wide [spread though the shock at Quetta was, did not involve the whole station the worst of its devastation. The Royal Air Force lines, the City and JCivil Lines were most grievously affected, They form roughly an equilateral triangle outside which, about three miles from the City, the Cantonments lie. Cantonments came off comparatively lightly. The troops Were thus enabled to organize prompt Feliet—a fortunate circumstance in view of the measure of their enormous task. By air much-needed [additional medical and nursing assist~ tance has been already despatched from Lahore. The destruction of the hospital has intensified the serious~ ess of the problem of sanitation and Femedial medical action. The aeroplane, once again, has proved its Value in humanitarian effort. The population is overwhelmingly Mos-Tem. Consequently burial" rather than cremation will be the prevailing form of funeral, This may make it all the more dificult to cope with the cholera menace. Northern India's fierce heat at this time of the year exposes the victims and the relieving contingents to exceptional hardship. The aeroplane can roitigate the appalling heat of that fearsome journey beres the Sind Desert from Lahore, even so the mere mobilization of the medical personnel in the Pun-Jab capital and other stations in the customary early June shade temperature of 117 onwards, is no picnic.
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