THE WAR AND LEPERS.
In India the war is making things harder s>vcn for the poor outcast lepers, who number some 300,000 in th:;t part of our Empire. This is because the prices of food have risen and also because the ordinary natives have not so much to give away in alms. The result is that large numbers of lepers aro seeking admission at many of the leper asylums. The Mission to Lepers consequently makes a special appeal for financial help. The mission has to do with 59 asylums in India, and is solely rcsponible for 33 of these, and thus some 8000 lepers aro housed, fed, clothed, and evangelised. The Indian Government subsidises much of the money spent by the mission, and little goes in salaries, as almost all the asylums have honorary superintendents (missionaries of various missionary societies).
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Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 62
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