Bombay plague epidemic was a bubonic plague epidemic that struck the city of Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in the late nineteenth century. The plague killed...
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is considered an epidemic. Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th century) and the second plague pandemic (14th century...
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of Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT) was created on 9 December 1898, in response to the Bombay plague epidemic of 1896. The plague's threat to Bombay's economy...
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Railway station opened in 9th December 1867. In 1896, during the Bombay plague epidemic, the Chinchpokli Station was converted into medical transit place...
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the Bombay plague epidemic that struck the city of Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in the early 1900s, the church worked to aid the victims of plague by providing...
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Persian plague epidemic of 1772–1773, also simply known as the Persian Plague, was a massive outbreak of plague, more specifically Bubonic plague, in the...
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The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed...
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Walter Charles Rand (category People from Bombay Presidency)
officer in British India. An epidemic of bubonic plague spread in Pune in 1896. On 19 February 1897, Rand was appointed as plague commissioner of the city...
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The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is a law which was first enacted to tackle bubonic plague in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in former British India. The law...
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growing urban areas, where small outbreaks sometimes reached epidemic proportions. The plague spread further and began to appear in the Pearl River delta...
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fleas which transmitted the plague, as plague epidemics did not recur in London after the fire. During the Bombay plague epidemic two centuries later, this...
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which lies parallel to the railway tracks. In 1896, during the Bombay plague epidemic, the Chinchpokli Station was converted into medical transit place...
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rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam Thirunal of Travancore. Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into...
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Haffkine's anti-plague vaccine were sent out from Bombay between 1897 and 1925, reducing the plague mortality by 50–85%. Since human plague is rare in most...
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during the 1896 Bombay plague epidemic. It represented the inaugural publication among Fernandes' body of works. During the period of the plague outbreak, he...
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textbook describes the Pune plague as follows, In 1897, there was an epidemic of plague in Poona. To control the epidemic, an officer named Mr. Rand was...
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Spanish flu (redirect from Great Flu Epidemic)
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza...
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conference in Venice, seeking ways to keep the plague out of Europe. Mumbai plague epidemic struck the city of Bombay (Mumbai) in 1896. The disease reached the...
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development to relieve congestion in the centre of the city following the Bombay plague epidemic of the 1890s. According to the survey plan, 60,000 people were to...
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subcontinent brought to Mumbai by Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves. 1899 – Bombay plague epidemic 1900 – By this year, 45 trains of Western Railway in each direction...
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The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of India, with its capital...
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Mumbai (redirect from Mumbai (Bombay))
on the Arabian Sea. In September 1896, Mumbai was hit by a bubonic plague epidemic where the death toll was estimated at 1,900 people per week. About...
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Dharavi (section Epidemics and other disasters)
suffered from many epidemics and other disasters, including a widespread plague in 1896 which killed over half of the population of Bombay. Sanitation in...
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in India where he received a certificate for his work during the Bombay plague epidemic of 1898. He then transferred as a piper to the King's Own Scottish...
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the Hindus and Muslims in Bombay, which led to 1500 arrests and 80 were injured. In 1896, Bombay was hit by bubonic plague which killed thousands of citizens...
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History of Mumbai (redirect from History of Bombay)
attacked by Muslims in Bombay. 75 people were killed and 350 were injured. In September 1896, Bombay was hit by a bubonic plague epidemic where the death toll...
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1881–1896 cholera pandemic (redirect from Hamburg’s cholera epidemics)
centuries. The fifth cholera pandemic would be known in Europe as the 'eastern plague'. A better insight in the disease and improved sanitation limited mortality...
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regions, set off a malaria epidemic which killed many people; soon thereafter, an epidemic of the bubonic plague began in the Bombay Presidency, which although...
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Archaeology & Museums, Karnataka. In the summer of 1896, bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. Its arrival was part of a deadly pandemic that had originated...
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Theories of the Black Death (section Plague)
Pederssøn in his diary, which contains detailed descriptions of a plague epidemic in Bergen in 1565. Ultimately, Hufthammer and Walløe offer the possibility...
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