Further Notes on the Incidence of Pneumonic Plague Cases in Gaya (Bihar)
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Gaya is the headquarter town of. the district with the same name in Bihar. The present population is about 110,000. It is a place for the Hindu pilgrimage attracting people from all over India throughout the year. During the Pitri Poush Mela which comes off near about September every year the town is visited by about a lakh (100,000) of pilgrims. The town suffered from severe plague epidemics in the past during the years 1900-1903, 1907-1908, 1911 and 1917-1918. Since the last outbreak no indigenous case was reported in the town. The two brothers Umasankar alias Raja Babu (63 years) and Ramasankar (60 years) of a Bengali Bhattacharya family which settled in
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