Image: A street in Old Town, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897. Wellcome V0029261

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Description: A street in Old Town, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897. Rampart Row - Old Town. Site of 1st cases in Karachi

Photograph probably by Jalbhoy, R.

The lettering is printed on the mount

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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