THE LEPERS OF BOMBAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 88, 31 March 1876, Page 4

THE LEPERS OF BOMBAY.

The Lancet is reminded, by the -•«• goigeaoßA displays, the festivities,, and ; othlrma^esWns^f rejoicing in tthe Eastwiih which 51 the Prince of Wales has been welcomed," of the sad condition of the lepers' in Bombay. What, i leprofyii ? n ? o i i)ne ! who has seen itcan well imagine, and it is. unnecessary to v describe it. But in the Jamsetjee/ Jehee^hoy^phurrumaala, a ; refuge for the" destitute and sick- in Bombay, .the Laneety on the authority of the Times , .VrW^^^JJ-^fi^.tbJßW are ppme. hundred and twenty lepers lodged at " the present 1 time; 'sharing its scanty accom^oa'aiion^ with an approximately ! equal- number of- the poor j aged, andcrippled. The jlepers • live in what are called orawls or cells, some 6ft long by sft wide..,i|pd : Ane inVtituHonr is so,fuljL that otten two lepers are crowded into one of them. Theyare Without furniture,, or, eyfin ppoking" uTentils,, but each of : ffi^raiow?o^; r bf rice, arid three pice with which to p»y for fuel to drejßSH JheirofoQd. \ Ttiey.oQnßiM ,, of men. women, and children^ the childi^^m^iheV^ffs^rib^^iof ther';men and women/ some 6t tliem being born: in <thai J)hurruuiß,a^a v itself, for, ; no, separation of the sexes <is .attempted, or . it seems ev,en,, thought ofy Unfortunate creatures'with '/{heir limbs wastedtill only the outline? ;pf tbe, bones remain, or else BwoUenoutof all form of limbs," sit or_lie-About as they_choose, without supervision or ; medical .care, except from one charitable physician, whose namej, .ia^withheld, at his own j request seemingly. ' They are visited by ho friend^liaM /£yJAP minister of any, re- j ligioo. "They are abandoned," says the Ldkcet, "of God and ; man, and '-. wereat noi that, v the, DhorjimsaU.giv.es ' . thein'H'hertfttlf W»f 6 fV ( cell in ; which to ilie,a«d a. handful of rice with- which" to sußtain^iife,* theySyouid die in their Bores along our streets arid 1 in our compduricfeP^ Only : t|ioße, who^ are verymuch afflicted are, admitted into the.refuge.'^irase who are not in ao advanced a state of f disease , are. sent away to beg .in tne public highways and byways until they are sick enough to be taken intoWe'Dhurrumsala;