Letters from foreign lands . soon Hospi-tal looked as if they had been overworked,the streets lacked the life and animationwhich we expected to see, and everybody wastalking about a hoped-for revival of businessnow that the people were beginning to comeback. On reaching Bombay we found that therewas still a good deal of talk about the plaguethere, but no one appeared to manifest anyfear of it. In every pait of the city we sawmen carrying rat-traps which the Board of 62 Health was supplying to the public as one ofthe means of arresting the disease. It is be-lieved that the rats are the chief, i
Letters from foreign lands . soon Hospi-tal looked as if they had been overworked,the streets lacked the life and animationwhich we expected to see, and everybody wastalking about a hoped-for revival of businessnow that the people were beginning to comeback. On reaching Bombay we found that therewas still a good deal of talk about the plaguethere, but no one appeared to manifest anyfear of it. In every pait of the city we sawmen carrying rat-traps which the Board of 62 Health was supplying to the public as one ofthe means of arresting the disease. It is be-lieved that the rats are the chief, if not theonly carriers and that their destruction willbe the destruction of the malady. As aprophylactic Haffkines serum was being ex-tensively used. Bombay is, in every senseof the word, an up-to-date city. Nowhereare there finer buildings or more beautifulones. The railway station is a marvellouslyhandsome building. The post-office, courthouse, city hall, and other public edifices arepalatial in their magnificence. The Taj.
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