CHINESE LEPERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1486, 22 December 1884, Page 2

CHINESE LEPERS.

In connection with the anti-Chinese agitation in America, the New York •'Morning Journal" of August Ist, publishes the following: — Two of the worst Chinese lepers ever seen in the Unitfil States will be shown at noon to-day in the Union Square, by Doctor E. C. O'Donnell, formerly a member of the Constitutional Convention of California, a man who has spent half a lifetime and a fortune .in thte antiChinese' agitation. The face -of one leper is frightfully swollen, and the flesh lies on it iv folds, so that it has ■the <app,earan,cß of being $qrnugatgd. Their.hearisf.are tvjioe the natural size. Neither can see exct-pt by turning liis eyes^pitb^waxcl.^e^yv Wo' life has lost all his .fingers and half of each foot. His left leg is as large as a pillar. His njouth" is ; drawn to one aidb, ; tfjiid fait* face, emaojatod iro^n^the destruction of its'^Wufecies. '-''■ Eaich •' has ; tußercnlar M^pvosy.' The doctor, vwTio.i'B AtinSlai: ' with the disease, toys they are "'' THE WOK^SpSoTtSfENS" OFTIEFBrffB ! * * .hejii^^'^lrs^r 'Ke'ftisfcioyered^hem "fouir'^ays i»ef6re*"he'Mt 'for the "East,: living two, Btoriea underground, in Bull Hun Alley, between Pacifip . and Broadway streets, in San Francisco. It is thought that they bad been hidden

there by the Six Companies. The two had been in the country «i«ht or uin« y^ars, and had probably had leprosy four or -five years. The do.ptbtvhas ■ y collected photographs of 200 Chinese lepers of San Francisco. • ., : HORRIBLE, REVOLTING FACES, with a leduiue look, and on which the flesh hnrig in great folds. Eyes that had a hideous look. Scars, and limbs from which half the members were missing. One of the limbs of 6n« of the.<Chiuaiuan w.aslarger than his body. Another had'a Frightful swelling that weighed- nearly, a hundred pouuds. " These 19 victims of leprosy," said the doctor, indicating a card on which there were 19 pU6togi»phs;; r ' were 19 oigarinakers.^^foSlfad>--tu^m making cigars two^ 'sfiSries underground, 150 fret backft-pjm the. S^ewalk':- There they.ljvecl in fil^'&nd .darkness.". When they^aEtnae to the light they could no*-|e&; All- were nearly blind. Tiie '^igarß they, made were sold on the streets. They had probably been hidden, away by the Six Companies. Again, they lik« dampness because iv ameliorates their sufieriugs. The.v are photographs of F 6 Lim aud Yo Sun, with leprosy of the worst type. TheyTownHd a cigar factory.- Here are thirteen Chinamen who went to work for them. They were healthy when they went to work. All got leprosy. Employers and employed were sent together to the pest house. Here are photographs of TOVR WHITE MEtf WITH LEPROSY. The first was a rich farmer near San jlose. He hired twelve or thirteen Chinamen to pick fruit for him. He supposes that he contracted leprosy from them. The second was an engineer in San Francisco, ile believes tht»t lih got the leprosy through shirts washed at a Chinese laundry. This is | an American printer, who was infected with lepiosy by smoking cigarettes made by a Chinaman. His thig«rs had ■ dropped off. The fourth photograph is of a sheep herder near San Francisco 1 who 'hired Chiueso herdsmen, from 1 whoo) he contracted the terrible dis- '. ease. You see that picture of a young , woman with a black mantle thrown i j over hv.r head, who has the leprosy so j terribly ? That is a young woman of • one of the wealthiest families in California. She is highly educated, and 20 years old. THE WHOLE FAMILY HAVE LEPROSY, . Three daughters, two sons, father, and ! mother. They liv« in a fine house in San Francisco, and never go outside s of it. I have Wen in the house, and am well acquainted with the family. [ They contracted leprosy from Chinese L servants employed iv the house. Only ' two weeks ago I caused the arrest of a ' beautiful and educated English girl '■ with leprosy on a steamer which had , arrived at San Fraucisco from Hono- . lttfa^whdMHfiheicontraeted it from th<> i Chinese. Sh«» was sent to the pest--1 house despite the protestations of her 1 parents. Every steamer that comes to 1 San Francisco from the Sandwich Islands, and from China, carries with her from 8 to 10 cases of leprosy. The anti-Chinese law is inoperative and as long as you cannot keep out the Chinese, you cannot keep out leprosy. The City of Tokio arrived at San Francisco two weeks «igo with 1,095 Chinese coolies on board, and everyoue came ashore as a merchant or a student. There are ▲ THOUSAND CHINESE LEPERS hidden in the cellars in San Francisco now. Thirty -four are in the pesthouse. Nearly 100 have been sent back to China. The Chinese Six Companies practically own the coolies they bring ever. When these servile labourers become lepers they are hidden away in cellars, and set to earning their living by making cigars and cigarettes. Do you think that Chicago or New York would submit to the presence of. lepfosy within its limits when the awful disease was attacking the white people, as San Francisco does? The Chinese have come to the Sandwich Islands and the Fhillipine Islands, and they have annihilated the people^ Ido not want to see my country destroyed as those | islands have been.