LEPROSY SUSPECTED.
CASE IN NAPIER HOSPITAL. A case of, leprosy frojm the Wai-rarapa-Hawke’s Bay area was included in the list of infectious diseases reported to the Health-' authorities for the week ending on Monday. Fortunately, the disease is of rare occurrence in the Dominion, and a “Post” reporter iwas informed that the sufferers from it are generally Chinese and Maoris. The Maoris are 'believed to have brought the disease with them from Polynesia, while the Chinese contract it abroad. When, as occasionally happens, Europeans are infected, it is always found that they have been inoculated with the virus in foreign countries. New Zealand cases are transferred to the Makogai leper station for treatment, and nowadays when the disease is discovered in its early of leprosy or not. stages there is some hope of recovery. A. local health officer stated that the sufferer is at present in the Napier Hospital, and there is still a doubt whether it is actually a ease
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3909, 21 February 1929, Page 2
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161LEPROSY SUSPECTED. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3909, 21 February 1929, Page 2
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