RIOT BY LEPERS
PETITION AT MANILA
"GIVE US LIBERTY OR DEATH"
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 ground that a recent medical investigation had shown 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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Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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119RIOT BY LEPERS Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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