§ MR WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for India if he will state the number of persons who have died of plague in the Punjab since the 1st January last, and what percentage of these persons were inoculated with plague serum.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The number of persons who have died of plague in the Punjab, whose population is 22,500,000, between the 1st January 1903, and the 2nd May (the latest date for which figures have been received) is 141,789. The returns do not distinguish deaths of inoculated persons from deaths of persons not inoculated.