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The office of an officer who works for the Karachi Plague Co
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The office of an officer who works for the Karachi Plague Co
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Interior of Anderson's office who works for the Karachi Plague Committee, India. Photograph, 1897. Photograph probably by Jalbhoy, R.

The lettering is printed on the mount

The left hand wall is covered by hanging sets of keys

Karachi is a port in the province of Sind (now [1996] Pakistan). It was placed in quarantine in 1882, during the outbreak of bubonic plague which spread from Bombay. The Plague Committee consisted mostly of volunteers, who were organised into parties and were responsible for the segregation and inoculation of various districts

Contained in an album of photographs which show the work of the Karachi Plague Committee in 1897

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Keywords: Karachi Plague Committee (India)

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