QA lazy these days." It is HOT. She is one of those persons 

 (and so is my father) who is used to working steadily, from 

 early till late, and if she happens to sit around for a while, she 

 considers it a sign of laziness. 



I hope you won't feel anxious about the plague out here for 

 I will take all proper precautions. No Europeans acquire the 

 disease unless you count the few nurses and inspectors who 

 have foolishly spent nights in plague-infested villages. The 

 mortality is higher than in any year since 1896. Week before 

 last there were over 2000 deaths in Ludhiana district (1617 

 sq miles). In Ludhiana proper, there are 40—50 deaths per 

 day. Funerals pass the house frequently. A great many 

 natives have left the infested city quarters and have put up 

 temporarily in the country. . . . 



May 13, 1905, Ludhiana: ... I had a little attack, some- 

 thing like pleurisy, a few days ago and put on a mustard plas- 

 ter. I succeeded in warding off the pleuritic attack and am 

 now recovering from the plaster. My mother has been wor- 

 rying and worrying because she has always prided herself that 

 her mustard plasters never blistered. It is nice to have some- 

 thing like this happen though, just for the sake of the parental 

 attention it creates. My father and I took a trip to Lahore. 

 I didn't enjoy it as much as I might, for the mustard plaster 

 had a delayed action. However, ice bags did wonders. 



This afternoon I have to speak to the native girl medical 

 students at the Ludhiana Mission Medical School on bubonic 

 plague. Please hold your little finger for me. I have 

 half-way succeeded in bluffing the Anglo-Saxon so I feel more 

 confident about the Asiatic. Fortunately they have a micro- 

 scope so I can show a few slides ; and then I have some photo- 

 micrographs with me. 



Our thermometer is broken but it is about as hot here as in 

 Lahore — 112 in the shade. One place in central India re- 

 ported 120 yesterday. We sleep on the roof every night and 

 it is comfortably cool in the evenings and mornings. 



The statistics of plague for the whole of India show that the 

 number is gradually diminishing. But this fact is not yet 

 noticeable in the Pan jab. There were 60,674 plague "seiz- 

 ures" and 52,25 3 deaths in India last week — 30,909 of these 

 in the Pan jab and over 2000 in Ludhiana. There have been 



