LEPERS’ RIOT
SENSATION AT MANILA PETITION FOR REFORM OF TREATMENT Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MANILA, October 6. Three hundred lepers, carrying placards reading: “ Give us liberty or give ns death,” rioted at San Lazaro Hospital, then escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to President Quezon’s palace to present a petition. The guards at the palace became panicky, and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building. The .spokesman for the lepers declared that the petition tor reform was based on the grounds that a recent medical investigation proved that to touch a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which is nob contagious. President Quezon’s secretary received the petition, and the patients returned jiiit’tly to the hespilal.
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Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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122LEPERS’ RIOT Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 9
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