SPREAD OF LEPROSY.
AN ALARMIST REPORT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June 26. . Carl Kohn, now in Wellington, who lived for 19 years in Rarotonga, derides the reported spread of leprosy in Cook Islands, - which ho characterised as an alarmist report from the usual source, the London Missionary Society. He considers the. statement that people were doomed if precautionary measures are not taken as preposterous.' There ,has liecn leprosy in the group for 40 years, hut it is confined to Ponhyrn Island, 650 miles from Rarotonga, and the victims are isolated on a little isle. Only two cases were heard of in Rarotonga. for years, and one of them was sent hack to Tahiti, whence he came.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 5
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116SPREAD OF LEPROSY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 5
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