Photograph: A Group of Widows and Orphans of Hindu Coolies who died of Plague at the Bombay Municipal Slaughter House.
From an album of 135 photographs entitled ‘Plague Visitation Bombay 1896-97’. The majority of the photographs were taken by Capt C Moss, The Gloucestershire Regiment, and the album was compiled by Mr F B Stewart for the Bombay Plague Committee, chaired by Brig Gen William Forbes Gatacre. 
Shows measures taken to combat the Bombay Bubonic Plague Epidemic (1896-1897).