HC Deb 30 June 1874 vol 220 cc698-9
MR. FORSYTH

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will state to the House the exact number of cases of death from starvation, owing to the famine in Bengal, so far as authentic information has been received up to the present time?

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON

, in reply, said, the latest authentic information received at the India Office reported the actual number of deaths from starvation in Bengal as being 23.