CURING THE LEPERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 11

CURING THE LEPERS

WORK OF MISSION LECTURES BY REV. F. A. CRAWSHAW The Rev. F. A. Crawshaw, who was recently appointed secretary of the Mission to Lepers in New Zealand, is engaged in giving lectures on the work of the mission. On Monday evening Mr. Crawshaw

spoke at Onehunga and on Tuesday at Otahuhu. Tomorrow .evlning he will speak at the United Evangelical Church, Mount Eden, and on Friday at the Baptist Church, Milford. In the course of his addresses. Mr. Crawshaw, who was formerly a missionary in Melanesia, gives an interesting and comprehensive account of the work of the mission. He describes the scope of the work and points out the enormous number of lepers there is in the work. An interesting series of slides showing pictures of the leper asylums in various countries and also of the poor treatment lepers received before these asylums were innumber 190.—P.A. Details of the science by which the lepers are now being cured form a most interesting part of the address. The fact that 312 lepers in India alone were discharged as cured last year is evidence of the progress that has been made in this department of medicine. Mr. Crawshaw makes a strong appeal on behalf of the children of lepers. He asks that more should be done for them in order that they may he saved from contracting the disease from their parents. In conclusion he says that so many lepers have now appeared demanding to be cured by the new treatment that most of the asylums are terribly overcrowded.