LEPROSY IN DENMARK.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 364, 30 April 1903, Page 6

LEPROSY IN DENMARK.

Prevalence «J the Ulienae There Is Attributed to 1/nclcimtUtaaa and Cai-eleaaneaa. United States Consul Victor E. Nelson, at' liorihMi. Xi<rway. has sent a report to the marine'hospital service in which he says that the prevalence of - leprosy in DeffnTaJk must be imputed to the uncliTui';:: ss and carelessness of the people, says a V.'ashington re- . port. He says tUere are ..six-leprosy patients there, of "whom-four are in Copenhagen. In Denmark leprosy does not belong fo those few diseases ■jvhich are subjected to public treatment. Iceland Ims itsowri leprosy law! At the Laugarii (es li ospi t al, in Iceland, established by the" "odd fellows' order', there' were 81'"pauents*received during 1899,- a.nd'of .these IS are now.deada.nd. only two have been discharged as fully. rycoyered. lie-lapses were. usual ifk leprosy oases. The'death rate hasbeen. ;f ear fully .high, -which is somewhat offpet by the /net that that was the first "year of tfie h'qjspit'al*s -work, and the Vorst of Iceland's population, first were admitted. I The report says that Dr. Artnareuer JHcnsen, of Bergeh/has found the lep'rosy.'bicilluS, Hut its antagonist"ls not yet disoovered. The loelanfler« are.de* jclare&to" be incbn siderately imprudent, the sick people using the same.. bed*. ,an,d eatingiaitd drinking utejpj*ih»a* thealthy, -,y .' /"