“GIVE US LIBERTY OR DEATH”
Lepers Riot at Manila
PETITION PRESENTED AT PRESIDENT’S PALACE
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(Received October 7,. 8.45 p.m.)
Manila. October 6.
Three hundred lepers, carrying placards reading “Give us liberty or give us death,” rioted at the San Lazaro hospital, escaped and proceeded in disorderly manner to President Quezon’s palace to present a petition. Guards at the palace became panicky and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building. The spokesman for the lepers declared that the petition for freedom was based on the grounds that a recent medical investigation had shown that rhe 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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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 11, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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