MOT IN LEPER HOSPITAL
300 Filipinos Seek
Freedom
PETITION .PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT.)
(Received October 7, 11.30 p.xn.)
MANILA, October 6,
Three hundred lepers, carrying placards reading “Give us liberty or give us death,” rioted at San Lazaro hospital. They escaped and in disorderly fashion went to President Quezon’s palace to present a petition.
The guards at the palace showed signs of panic and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the budding. , , , A spokesman for the lepers declared that their petition for freedom was based on the grounds of recent medical investigation, which showed that the touch of a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which was not contagious. President Quezon’s secretary received the petition, and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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