LEPROSY FROM FALSE HAIR.
A terrible story lies behind an order which has just been issued In one of the largest department stores in Plttsbnrg, to the effect that none of the employees must wear false hair in any form. Some time ago Miss Mamie GUlespie, the head of the glove department, purchased a switch in the false hair department, but within a fortnight of her first wearing it the upper part of her body was attacked by a malignant disease, which several doctors, after consultation, pronounced to be leprosy. The unfortunate girl ihas since been removed to an island off the North Carolina coast, where she remains Isolated.
The whole matter has been Investigated by the Government, and it appears that the false switch came from an Island in the Carribean Sea, where the most malignant leprosy cas«s are sent by the Cuban authorities.
Practically every large employer of female labour in Pltteburg has followed the example of the department store In question, by forbidding the wearing of any false hair whatever. The case is the first of the kind on record.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 15
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183LEPROSY FROM FALSE HAIR. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 15
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