THE COOK ISLANDS.
LEPROSY NOT SPREADING. , Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 26." Mr Carl lvohn, who is now m Wellington, but who lived nineteen years in Karatonga, derides the reported spread of leprosy in the (Jook Islands, wliil-1i he characterises as an alarmist, report, lrom tlie usual ' source, the London Missionary Society. He considers the statement that the people are doomed, if precautionary measures are not taken, as preposterous.' There has b<.eu leprosy in the group lor forty years, but it is confined to Penhryn Island, GSO miles from Raratoiiga, and the victims ' are isolated on a little islet. Only two cases have been heard of iu llaratonga lor years and one of tlieiu was .seni/ back to Tahiti whence hj« came.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13940, 28 June 1909, Page 6
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122THE COOK ISLANDS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13940, 28 June 1909, Page 6
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