LEPROSY NOT CONTAGIOUS
A SPECIALIST'S VIEW PARIS, November 12. The belief which has existed for hundreds of years that leprosy is contagious is opposed by Dr J. M. Le Mee, one of the French lieroes of science who have studied the disease in the leper colony at Orofara, Tahiti. He has also visited Colville, Louisiana. - In conversation to-day he stated that he was convinced that leprosy, like tetanus, was contracted through contact with the earth. “ There are possibly leprous grounds,” he continued, “ not merely in the East and in the South Seas, but also in Europe. I am the first to advance the theory that leprosy is not contagious. In the leper colony at Tahiti I have seen women who have lived with their leprous husbands for ten years, and have not contracted the disease. The children of lepers are also free from the disease.” '
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Evening Star, Issue 21580, 28 November 1933, Page 10
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