Lepers and Lais

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 61, 10 November 1887, Page 3

Lepers and Lais

The colonies are at last reaping some of the inestimable benefits accruing from the introduction of Chinese. Two cases of leprosy were recently reported in Melbourne to the Central Board of Health, and the patients were not, in this instance, lazarettic Mongols, but—Australian women. These wretched demireps are said to have contracted this siokening and tragical disease during their disgusting co-habitation with the riceeating, fantan-besoddened, opiumsoaked, pig-tailed heathens who represent the " yellow agony" in Australia, and suggest an almond-eyed and nauseous combination of filth, madness, death, and Orientalism. Now that these repulsive, primrosehued reptiles* are. handing on their paralysing toudh.. from our trade to <our daughters, we shall probably awaken to the gravity otthe situation. Chinese. gardeners grow our vegetables, and force them with the ieculenoe of death and disease into a putrescent luxuriance. Drenched with the hateful stimulant, they reek on the dinner table—small coffins are served out to children in helpings of cabbage and Bhrouds are munched with relish with perhaps not too well washed lettuce of vesper meal. Chin $se cabinetmaker* manufacture our chairs, which come fresh from the haunts of nameless abominations into the homes of the unsuspecting. Touch its varnish gingerly, and burn your clothing after casting it forth, for a grisly though an invisible death is already sitting there. Chinese wash our linen, and clothes mauled with fingers of nastiness are hugged to our cleanly flesh —we embrace a mysterious death in the folds of a garment. The Chinese must go! and take with (>hem their abominable vices and hideous plagues. Australia may be a spacious, territory, but there is no room within its boundaries to swing a pigtail; no space on its surface for a lazar-house.—Sydney Bulletin. "Bongh en Itch." "IJOU4II on Itch.?' en res skin hunaorj. eruptions, ring wor.ns, tetter, salt rheum, froßi ed f «■« t, chilblains, lt<*,.ivr pbtsoa, barber*' iteftu^Aipr?, i