Break Water Pots
to Defeat Plague
CALCUTTA, Aug. 13. (^—Hundreds of terror-stricken native housewives today feverishly destroyed
stoneware water pots and other utensils of that material.
Their fear was caused by the mysterious appearance of black spots on
the stoneware in many parts of the
city and a superstitious belief that
the stoneware had been attacked by
smallpox which would spread to hu-
Calcutta's health offices were besieged by crowds of the superstitious
demanding protection from an angry
goddess. The crowds refused to believe the official explanation that the
phenomena was produced by an exceptional monsoon condition giving
fise to a strange little fungus.
