§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if there is any foundation for the report from Bombay of a plague panic from the southern Kolar goldfields; and what steps are being taken to prevent further loss of life?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThe latest information I have received is that during the week ending Monday, February 13, there were 12 plague seizures and nine plague deaths in the Kolar district of Mysore. Nothing is said in that report as to any plague panic among the gold-miners. The Mysore State, supported by the British Resident and aided by the Government of India, is sparing neither expense nor effort to combat the plague wherever it appears in Mysore territory.