SPREAD OF LEPROSY.
' SERIOUS JIEI'ORT PROM THE COOK ISLANDS. (By Telegraph.—Press ; AssociaUonz-Oopyrisrlit.) • Sydney, Juno 23. Tho secretary; of •' lie Loodon ~ Missionary Society has received from a missionary a report stating that leprosy is increasing. to' ai alarming extent in .tho Cook' Islands. Tho spread of tho disease is attributed to ignorance and '.'carelessness an tho. part: of .the aatiTeS.V.,:-./^' The report adds, that unless very ' severe measures are soon taken and strictly enforced, all the islands in tie group, , in , the' course of a few yearaj will bo full of the disease, and'tho will"; be'doomed. ;JThe Minister in 'tho Cook:lslands, the Hon. J. Carroll, is ont of town, but r his Departmental, officers have received no Tadvioo of any incrcyise of leprosy in the islands:' Exports deceived some little time ago indicated that the disease was slightly decreasing. Tho steamer Minapouri, which , reached Wellington from Karotonga last week, brought no official intimntion on tho subject) .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7
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155SPREAD OF LEPROSY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7
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