Archive, 21 October 1943: the famine in Bengal
21 October 1943: Viceroy Lord Linlithgow is accused of a failure to anticipate the food shortage and to evolve a policy of proper distribution
Delhi, October 20
Calcutta’s rapidly rising mortality gives some indication of Bengal’s suffering, last week’s death-toll being 2,154 against 1,927 in the previous week.
Conditions outside Calcutta are considerably worse, though the figures are not available except for small centres like Gopalganj, which recorded 220 deaths from starvation and 150 more from cholera during the first half of October.
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