BURYING A LEPER.
Among the social peculiarities of Raj pootana, in India, leper burial is entitled to notice. When a leper is past all hope of living more than a few days, his nearest relations arrange, with his approval, for his immediate interment Self-destruction is called aamadk and is regarded as so highly meritoii-
ous that the disease is sure to die out in the family of the victim. So lately as 1875 a leper named Ootnah, living and lingering at Serohi, entreaoed his wife to put an end to his misery. A tradesman was accordingly engaged to make the necessary arrangement?, which simply consisted of hiring a eo'uple or laborers to dig a hole, into which they thrust Oomah, consenting to his own death. The durbar, coerced by the British Government, at length took cognisance of it, and fiued the widow 100 rupees. The tradesman was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and the gravediggers each to two years.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1060, 30 May 1878, Page 4
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159BURYING A LEPER. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1060, 30 May 1878, Page 4
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