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Horrors Of The India Famine

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
September
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Iho editor of the Madra Times, a member of tlie relief committee, vrrites under date of Aug. 1 as follows: The population of Southern India, moro or leas affected by famine, nutnbers24,000, 000. In the moet favorable eircumstances, at least one-sixth will die. Twenty-three people in all died of starvation in Bengal. Iu Madras, no camp of 3,000 rÍ8es morning nfter morning without leaving tliirty corpses. In the interior the distress is most fearful. One gentleman passing down tho valley in the Wylnad district counted twenty-nine dead bodies on the road. A coffeeplanter seeking shelter from rain in a hut found six decomposing corpses iu it. On any day and every day mothers may be seen in the strceta of Madras offering their ohildren for sale, while tho foundling portion of the poor-house is full of infants, found by tho pólice on the road, deserted by their parents. Since the famino began 500.000 people have died of want and distress. The first big tragedy may be expected in Mysore. ïa. that province, indeed, information has reached me from Bangalore of two cases of cannibalism already.

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