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The office of an officer who works for the Karachi Plague Committee, India. Photograph, 1897. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The left hand wall is covered by hanging sets of keys
Karachi is a port in the province of Sind (subsequently in 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
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