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In September 1896 the first case of bubonic plague was detected in Mandvi by Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas. It spread rapidly to other parts of the city, and the death toll was estimated at 1,900 people per week through the rest of the year. ... Those who could afford it tried to avoid the plague by moving out of the city.
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In 1896 , an epidemic of bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. Initially, it was reported in the port cities of Bombay, Calcutta etc but later spread in Bengal, Madras, United Provinces, Central Provinces, Punjab, Mysore, Hyderabad, and Kashmir. It devastated almost the whole of India until about 1899. Up to the end of 1903, that deadly epidemic took the lives of about more than 2 million people according to state records.
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