A MANILA SENSATION
LEPERS LEAVE HOSPITAL PETITION FOR FREEDOM MANILA, Oct. 6. (Received Oct. 7, at 10.15 p.m.) Three hundred lepers, carrying placards reading, "Give us liberty give us death," rioted at San Lazaro Hospital, then escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to President Quezon's palace to present a petition. The guards at the palace became panicky, and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building. The spokesman for the lepers declared that the petition for reform was based on the grounds that a recent medical investigation proved that to touch a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which is not contagious. President Quezon's secretary received the petition, and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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122A MANILA SENSATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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