THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LEPERS.
I'm: chief sensation in London for the week ending Juno 22, was over the Prince of Wales' leper. By some curious freak, London took exceptional interest in the circumstances surrounding the death of Father Dailiien, the missionary priest at the leper colony of Molokai, in the Sandwich Islands. After his death, a photographer who owned the negative of the priest, coined money, and the agitation began. The Prince took charge of the matter, and then the doctors, Who nave views oil 16prasy, joined in, and by the time a meeting Was held, the full grown project of founding a leper hospital in London had taken shape. Search was instituted, and the discovery was made that there are two lepers in London. The Prince, in his speech at the meeting, declared there was a leper employed in the Lolidoil meat market. At this, a fearful outcry was made by the butchers, and columns of protests were crowded into the papers until the identity of the man was revealed. He proved to be & native Englishman, wild had never been out of the country and made a living by peddling oitttiils ... He is an Undoubted leper. >i« v-,v. *• *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9423, 22 July 1889, Page 5
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