HOPE FOR LEPERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1922, Page 7

HOPE FOR LEPERS

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(IROH OBF. OWN, CORMSPOSiIin,)

\'jr^;^ V:'.;';^NE^;jWtfrUn^^j ; : Accorclinpi to a report,by thSjQueeps; land ■'. Healtti ipommi^lion, the' cure: of l^rbsy'^is bhly a matter,;ot , titrie, with the'1 treatment iiow available vi Austri-' aid, •; -tfj.. :;■' %::r;y.^y'yr :'<■''': !'6';<S-s

Vy.rae^&iimi^oaerVifeted'itbat-- twelve' .'■ Jn'oijthsf .' agd gr ( eat p'roininence ,■ was; given : in.'vth'e Press ■to '■ a", statement^ that: a":cure for lbprbsy, • called ithyeesters, f had been ;bßtainecl in Ainericai :. ; Every /bnmt''y/ad; made by^ the department^' w>:jfetr in touch withlthpse cbiitrbiling the. curej but the material "appa^eiitiyuwaS ibo^weplious. ,By persevefence,']hbweveri 'ithSirHealth {DcV partment ha«; been able to oßtain a small p^uintity 'of it ■frbnv^Hbijolulu;? This Va» ■submitted' tb''.tne:.Government„<A nalyst with th« anti-leprol.: refined chaulmoogra piii7^hich',\h^::;bMn-:Vthe;..fle'pa3toeab':», :staridby»' except during' ;th_e warrwhen it; was unobtainable,'•■■^^ The inmates of. the Island Institutibn :had been.living in grfeat, -hopest^f receiving sbine ihew trealmbnt,'but;.with/ the result!.of-the -analysis of the | .reported^ Vnew" our* they would be.,disappbmted; •.:The - analyst's I repbrt-shpwed''thfit.the;,ne*/ ciire ', *as practically the" Same "ks;: anti;l6pj^r ;V in ■compbsitioh,,^^sb the^chasulmoogra or "antilepro'l treatment,; as: carried out 'at "-Peel - islahd^had * ridfc yet: been Bupereede^fc ]:, '■■$

( The;: Gommissibri«sr:; explained; fihJe : suecejrt that: hScl; attended ithe1 i:anti-leprol treatments atv'Peel 'jftlani:; > -Dwihß, the pAst ten years, twenty iiimatteliad.been ■■Jib«al^.>;.-: -Thfey?-.!';iiad ;,hot shown: any lepros^ jbacilli; for, ati'lehst ;18 months prior to discharge bii t»roie.:.:.These HBer- ; at*d petsons^ .had to report to the Health Depittnientf;e.vfcry:vthree months: for; at least; tWb yearsi-: Of. twenty discharged, •biUy onb" had tbbe/; return^Jfor further. treatment., •".';■.•:;',':-..;:.H; '•.'■'"•r-'^:-''^'^if':':.'-r:^'