ESCAPE OF LEPERS
PETITION FOR LIBERTY PANIC IN MANILA MANILA, Oct. 7. Three hundred lepers carrying placards reading: "Give us liberty or give us death," riotod at the San Lazaro Hospital, and escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to the palace of the President, Don Manuel Quezon, 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 freedom was based ,on the grounds that recent medical investigation showed that the touch of a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which was not contagious.
The President's secretary received the petition, and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 5
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