Reports recently received by the Board of Health from Sandhurst, Ballarat, and Beechworth show that several Chinese in the Chinese quarters of those towns are affected with leprosy. The Board has been impressed with the desirability of isolating them in the middle quarantine station near Point Nepean. The Amending Health Act empowered the Board for the first time to make regulations for the safe custody of lepers. The matter will be considered at the next meeting of the Board,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9257, 10 January 1889, Page 5
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