People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — In Victoria’s Empire. [ARTICLE]

In Victoria’s Empire.

During the former famine period in India—lß77-B—about 5,500,000 persons perished, and it was subsequently estimated by medical experts that at least two-thirds of those deaths conld have been prevented if the government had acted when the scourge first appeared. Perhaps not as many will be killed by the famine this year, but the proportion of deaths attributable to government delay promises to be quite as large.—Providence Journal.