ALLEGED LEPROSY.
REBUFF. TO A LOCAL BOD Yd
-“ TOO MUCHEE SNOW,’-!
By .telegraph—Press Association—' (By .Telephone from Napier.) DUNEDIN, last night. There was a -strong discussion at 'a meeting of the Waihemo Council, over the case o£ a Chinaman, who was reported some time ago by Dr Niven, the Chief Health Officer, to be suffering from leprosy^ Dc Ogsten, the local Health Officer, wrote, pointing out that the Council, by allowing the man to escape, had rendered themselves liable to various penalties. Nearly all the Councillors expressed the conviction that the man was not suffering from leprosy, but from frostbite, the Chinaman himself saying that lie had received injuries at Nevis from “too mucliee snow,’’ and that he had been in the same condition for twenty years. The raw finger and the toe stumps had now quite healed, and the man was working occasionally,- It was decided to take steps to provide isolation in a liutj
Councillors staled that it would take a castle to keep the man from going to M’.Crae’s when he decided .to do
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 504, 18 August 1902, Page 2
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