LEPROSY AND THE MACRI RACE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3070, 19 January 1894, Page 2

LEPROSY AND THE MACRI RACE

Mr Moss, British Btislcfattt of Raratonga has just been Interviewed by a Hejrald reporter in .Auckland on the "übiect of^ the Maori inhabitants of the inlands under his cafe. Mr Moss said speakinjtof this dreaded diseas* :— ' It V knojn to exist in Penriiyn and ManahiKi, but there is/ replied Mr Mow, 'no established case in *he #odk Islands. The subject dm given me much concern, as the Cook Islands «t» in regular commauication both with Penrhyn and Manahiki, and proper precautiona, with a Jfaori popuj|ti6n t are very difficult if not impossible. At Penrhyn, leperaand their families are sent to a amall adjacent islet, which, bowerer^ is stid to be frequently fiiited by the: friends and^relateens of the lepers. Speaking of the wport of Indian LeprosyCommissiori of 1800:91 that the Conimisßionars are rery poßitiTe in stating their unanimous belief that leprosy ' is not diffused t>y hereditary tranftmfiion^ that the extent it caolMi| propagated by contagion is fipSMgfy •m»H, > that it is Vditecfty inflllnced by insanitary surroundings/ whicii,^ |y causing a predispomtion, increasertte susceptibility of the individual to the disease/ a^d|t|iit | UMB^^iooi directly originated by the use of any jgrtieular article pf" food nor bf any climatic or telluric condiom.' Three of the Commissioners wete appointed 4n^?n^i^b^j|Se «ty»l College of Physicians, the Beyal Oollege^of, Surgeonß, and the Bxecuti?e Committee of the National Leprosy Fund raised ui»der the auspioei of the Prince of Wales. To them were added two Jndian military sorgeons of nigh., standing appointed by. the Indian Government. The Commissioners Are. unanimojis agaiqat com,pulsorjjsolation. They recommfnd Toluntary separation of lepers by .dom, ana prohibiting fliem _jOnly from if^m ai^#4 4 *m "fifing or fiW'&WMm? <&!&** f|ll»ngs jwch l,.Jii of barbers and others, j^grant and the Tillages and scattered about the ?° an } feM Mfa im-f %^!#^ as f probably sources of little or iio danger.' y, , ..._ _

| Bntfshers owe a lot of taone? to each other, and" claim a huge debt from other people. Mr A, J. Wilson. national debt of odd may be looked upou m a fir^ mortgage upon t^ empire,^ JNext to it stapda the local depts, and the debtt and guarantees oToir railwajf. They foot op, ommm§^m^6 than tbe^*g»iQ come, the unaacertaioable a»«aa we havo put io countriea the Bntisli flag. Tbere>»re atleaat QsoQ&wm^* that iwfiSSm about three thoutaqd millioD ater^iDg out of which two-thircU or. ao is «pon the empire itself. This^iji exclasi?e of the immense sumt emharked in prirate adventure^ abroaur or at home, in I the form of share papital, or m other unsecured iorettments.

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