SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the Secretary of State for India, whether he can give the number of deaths from plague in India and the Bombay and Bengal districts respectively for the four weeks ending 26th March.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Except as regards the Bombay Presidency, the returns of plague deaths in India received up to to-day do not go beyond the week ended 19th March. The totals for the three weeks ended on that date are 13,187 for Bengal, 24,390 for the Bombay Presidency, and 102,962 for the whole of India, including the above. The number of plague deaths in the Bombay Presidency alone during the month of March was 35,416.