When the bubonic plague struck Bombay in the 1890s, postcards were used, in part, by the business community to communicate that all was okay, and that patients were being well taken care of in facilities like this one with clean interiors and an
![Statement of Plague Cases [Front]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/plague-card-front.jpg?itok=Os6_NsOx "Statement of Plague Cases [Front]")
The front of the Plague cases postcard sent reporting the incidence of the disease on December 8th, 1902 in Rutlam, Neemuch District, now in Madhya Pradesh.
![Statement of Plague Cases [Back]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/plague-card-2-back.jpg?itok=GWrEhfTZ "Statement of Plague Cases [Back]")
The front of the Plague cases postcard sent reporting the incidence of the disease on December 8th, 1902 in Rutlam, Neemuch District, now in Madhya Pradesh.
Handwritten on the back is this message: "Bombay, March 3, 1903: “Dear little General. This is a picture of the native portion of this city – we do not dare go in it because there are so many cases of plague.
One of the most popular views of plague camps in Bombay at the turn of the century, here with a nicely positioned stamp. Postmarked June 30, 1906, Mumbai. Addressed to “Miss Amy L.
Illustrated postcards actually came to Mumbai at an inauspicious moment.
Handwritten on the back is a part of a longer message that discusses the plague then present in Bombay: “A poor soldier got it but recovered a Sergeant’s child died of it & Major Murray has been very ill and is only a little better.
