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The Lancaster Ledger
Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina
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A Calcutta correspondent reports on the devastating famine in Orissa, India, with a government commissioner estimating 500,000-600,000 deaths there alone, and a total of around one million victims across affected districts including Midnapore, Ganjam, Chota Nagpore, and Calcutta, with deaths ongoing.
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A government commissioner has prepared a report of which it said:
A picture more heart-rending, facts more hideous, could not be given. The commissioner estimates the deaths in Orissa alone at 500,000 to 600,000, and in some places he admits that three fourths of the population have been carried off-
Orissa had five millions. Add the mortality of Midnapore, which was as severely visited: of Ganjam and Chota Nagpore, which were terribly, yet more mildly, dealt with: of Calcutta, whose hospitals still tell so sad a tale, and of the other districts, where the sequelae, at least of starvation, carried off many, and remember that the deaths are still going on at the rate of a hundred a day, and you will agree, with the rough estimate generally accepted here that the number of victims will not be under a million.
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Orissa, India
Event Date
December 7th
Outcome
500,000 to 600,000 deaths in orissa alone; total victims estimated at not under a million across orissa, midnapore, ganjam, chota nagpore, calcutta, and other districts; deaths ongoing at 100 per day
Event Details
Recent famine in Orissa district, India, with government commissioner reporting heart-rending conditions; three fourths of population carried off in some places; Orissa had five million people; additional mortality in Midnapore, Ganjam, Chota Nagpore, Calcutta, and other districts due to starvation and sequelae