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A group of volunteers involved with the Karachi Plague Committee, India. Photograph, 1897. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The chalk board sign in the foreground reads: "Plague Party - Karachi"
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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