FOUR YEARS ON LEPER ISLAND
FOUND FREE FROM DISEASE.
[noil OVR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] AITOTAja, December 1. The medical officer from Rarotonga paid a visit in Novemher to the leper island of Motu-rakaa, to inspect the supposed lepers. He decided that a man named Taote and his wife, who had been isolated for the past four years, were nob lepers at all, and granted permission for them to return to the mainland. The relatives of these two persons proceeded by boat to Moturakau on Wednesday, November, 20, and conveyed thorn ashore, leaving all their clothing and effects behind at the leper island.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 10
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101FOUR YEARS ON LEPER ISLAND New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 10
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