LEPERS IN MANILLA
ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL PETITION FOR FREEDOM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MANILLA, 6th October. Three hundred lepers carrying placards reading “Give us liberty. Give us death,” rioted at San Lazaro Hospital and escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to President Quezon's Palace to present a petition. Guards at the palace became panicstricken, 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 of recent medical investigation that the touch of a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which is not contagious. President Quezon’s secretary received the petition and the patients returned quietly to hospital.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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118LEPERS IN MANILLA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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