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Caste and the Plague

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 24.

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Caste and the Plague

ONE of the great barriers in India to the work of prevention of the bubonic plague and the cure of plague patients is the accursed system of caste in vogue in India. One writer says that "a man prefers to die in his windowless, blood-poisoned hut, rather than break his caste by going to a hospital where a man of another caste has previously taken refuge." They know not of the truths, "God is no respecter of persons," and "all ye are brethren."