TREATMENT OF LEPROSY
Big Improvement In Recent. Years
"The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, July 3
There had been considerable improvements in leprosy treatment and remedial surgery since his last visit overseas six years ago, said the Rev. Murray Feist, secretary of the New Zealand council of the Mission to Lepers, yesterday. Mr Feist returned to Auckland after four months visiting African countries, England, Canada, and Greece.
Surgery was now helping those marked by the disease to take their place again in the community, he said. Sunken noses, which were a result, were being rectified by plastic insertions, and eyebrows which had disappeared were being replaced by grafts from the scalp. * Mr Feist said the most serious spot in the world for leprosy was I still Africa.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 11
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