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LEPEBS IN PHILIPPINES PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT LIBERTY OR DEATH SOUGHT (Received October 7, 7.5 p.m.) j MANILA. Oct. e Three hundred lepers carrying placards bearing the sentence: "Give us liberty or give us death," rioted at the San Lazaro Hospital, from which they escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to the palace of the President of the Philippines, Senor Manuel Quezon. Their object was to present a petition.
The guards at the palace became panic-stricken and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building.
The spokesman for the lepers said their petition for freedom was based on the ground that recent medical investigations had shown that to touch leprous patients was not sufficient to transmit the disease, which was not contagious.
Senor Quezon's secretary received the petition and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22544, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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