NOT A LEPER.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 31

NOT A LEPER.

With reference to tho reported caso of leprosy at Sydney somo days ago, tho President of tho Board of Health givo3 the following particulars regarding tho suspected leper:—"The man, a Chinese gardener at Enfield, was seen by the chief medical inspector of tho board, Dr Ashburton Thompson, who was unable to certify that tho man was a leper, but suggested that from his condition he would Tie the better of hospital treatment for a little while, during which ho could also lie under observation. He was therefore treated at tho Coast Hospital for six days, during the whole of which tine he wa<: under medical observation, but at the end of this period it was d-terminod that ho was not a leper. Ho was suffering from a skin disease—psoriasis—which sometimes requires close observation to bo distinguished from certain phases of leprosy."

A ghastly story of tin obs .ui-e misery of London c;ime before tin St.. faneris Coroner the other day. Kilward McJarihy an 1 ,'iis

wife,, or tin penv e,c.!;■•-• r> who parsed as such, lived in a scullery at Sorners Town, and earned their living and paid their rent of half-a-crown a week by making' pipes thore. Their home and workshop was sft fin by Oft Gin. In this room McCarthy died. The latest development of hypnotism consists in burying an ontranccd man in n, gravo 9ft deep and leaving him there for a week, a shaft being' loft open for the necessary respiration, 'i his was done at tin Hoyal Aquarium last month with a man named Alfred VVootfcoii a lead worker, the bvpnoti I. being ;i Professor Friokor. When tho .subject was dug up, he was weak, but otherwise seemed none the worse.