LEPERS CAUSE PANIC.
LIBERTY PLEA IN MANILA.
MANILA, October 7. Three hundred lepers carrying placards bearing the sentence: "Give us liberty or give us death," rioted at the San Lazaro Hospital, from which they escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to the palace of the President of the Philippines, Senor Manuel Quezon. Their object was to present a petition. Guards at the palace became panicstricken and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building. The spokesman for the lepers said their petition for freedom was based on the ground that recent medical investigations had shown that to touch leprous patients was not _ sufficient to transmit the disease, which was not contagious. , ~ Senor Quezon's secretary received the petition and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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