CHINESE LEPERS. A Warning.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 5

CHINESE LEPERS. A Warning.

In connection with the anti-Chineso agita tion in America, the New York " Morning Journal" of August Ist, publishes the following : —Two of the worst Chinese lepers ever seen in the United States will be shown at noon to-day in Union Square, by Doctor E. C. O'Donnell, formerly a member of the Constitutional Convention of California, a man who has spent half a lifetime and a fortune in the anti-Chinese agitation. The face of one leper is frightfully swollen, and the flesh lies on it in folds, so that it has the appear- ; ance of being corrugatod. Their heads are twice the natural size. Neither can see oxcept by turning his eyes up toward the sky. AVo Lin has lost all his fingers and half of each foot. His left leg is as large as a pillar. His mouth is drawn to one side, and his faco emaciated from the destruction of its muscles. Each has tubercular loprosy. The doctor, who is familar with the disease, says they are

THK WORST SPECIMENS OP LEPERS ho has over scon. He discovered them four days before ho left for the East, living two stories underground, in Bull Run Alley, between Pacific and Broadway streets, in San Francisco. It is thought that they had been hidden there by the Six Companies. The two had been in the country eight or nine years, and had probably had leprosy four or five years. The doctor has collected photographs of 200 Chinese lepers of San Francisco. UORRTIiLK, REVOLTING FAOhS, Avith a leonine look, and on which the flesh hung in great folds. Eyes that had a hideous look. Scars, and limbs from which half the members were missing. Ono of the limbs of ono of the Chinamen was larger than his body. Another had a frightful swelling that weighed nearly a hundred pound". "These 19 victims of leprosy," .said the doctor, indicating a card on which theie weio 1!) photographs, "were 1!) cigarlnakers. [ found them making cigars two .stoties under ground, 150 feet back from the sidewalk. There they lived in filth and daikncss." "When they came to the light they could not see. All were nearly blind. The cigars they made were sold on the sticct*. Thoy had. probably been hidden away by the Six Companies. Again, they like dampness because it ameliorates their suileiings Here are photographs of Fo Lim a'.ul Yo San, with leprosy of the worst type. They owned a cigar factory. Here aie thirteen Chinamen who went to work foi them. They wcio healthy when they went to work. All got lepio.^. Employeis and employed were sent together to the pest-house. Here are photographs of I'OUR WHITK MKN WITH Lhr-KOSY. The h'i>t was a lich farmer near San Jose. Jlo hhed twelve or thirteen Chinamen to pick fruit foi him. Ho supposes that he contracted leprosy from them. The second wa? an engineer in San Francisco, lie believes that he got the leprosy through .shuts washed at a Chinese laundry. This is an American printer, who was infected with leprosy by smoking cigaicttes made by a Chinaman. I lib tingeis had dropped oft". The fourth photograph i.s of a sheep herder near »San Fianoisco who hired Chinese herdsmen, horn whom he contracted the terrible disease You see that pictuic of a young woman with a blacit mantle throw n over her head, who has the leprosy so tcnibly ? That s a young woman of one of the wealthiest families in California. She is highly educated, and only 26 years old. Tith WIIOLK FAMILY H VVK LhI'ROSY, Three daughters, two sons, father, and mother. Thoy live in a fine hcuso in San Francisco, and never go outside of it. 1 ha\c been in the house, and am well acquaintod with the family. They contracted lcjio)sy from Chinese servants employed in the house. Only two wcoks ago 1 caused the anc^t of a beautiful and educated English girl with Icpiosy on a steamer which hud arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu, wheic she contracted it from the Chii esc. She was sent to the pest-house despite the prote=tations ot her parents. Eveiy steamer that comes to San Francisco from the Sandwich Islands, and from China, cinics with her from Sto 10 cases of leprosy. The an ti - Chinese law is inopei ative, and as. long as you cannot keep out the Chinese, you cannot keep out leprosy. The City of Tokio arrived at San Francisco two weeks ago with 1,095 Chinese coolies on board, and everyone camo ashore as a mei chant or a student. They are

A THOUSAND CHINESE LEPEKB hidden in the cellars in San Francisco now. 'I hiity-four are in the pest-houso. Nearly H)0 Ii«l\ c been Pent back to China. The Chinese Six Companies practically own the eooiie-> they bring over. When these servile labourcisbccomelepers they are hidden away in cellars, and set to earning their living by mnking cigars and cigarottcs. Do you think that Chicago or Now York would Mibmit to the presence of leprosy within it-, limits when the awful disease Mas attacking I lie w hite people, as San Francisco docs ? I he Chinese have come to the Sandwich I^ands and the L'hillipinc Islands, and they li.ivo annihilated the people. Ido not want to see my country destroyed as those islands have been.