LEPER PATIENTS.
Reported 111-Treatment Denied
By Minister.
NEW STATION NEEDED. (Received 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Referring to complaints about the leper station at Darwin the Minister for Home and Territories, Mr. Marr, said it was quite untrue that lepers had been left uncared for and not fed and clothed.
He had been advised that the chief medical officer of the Health Department had visited Lazaret every week for the inspection and treatment of lepers. During the time between the visits the treatment was carried out tinder the supervision of an intelligent half-caste inmate.
A weekly ration was supplied to the inmates and clothes and other articles were supplied when requested..
The recent escape of some lepers was not due to maltreatment but to quarrelling and jealousy among the lepers themselves.
Mr. Marr admitted that the site was an unsuitable one for a leper station and said the Government had been endeavouring for some time to procure a better one.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 7
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