A SHOCKING CASE. A European Afflicted With Leprosy. Invercargill, March 23.
A Portuguese named Emanuel Silva, a rabbitor, was received into the Hospital on Saturday, suffering from leprosy. As was the case with the leprous Chinaman, none of the local bodies seemed inclined to have anything to do with him. On Saturday night he made his appearance at the policestation, and from there was taken to the Hospital, where Dr. Low consented to admit him till Monday morning. Unless the Charitable Aid Board does its duty in the matter, it is Inspector Buskley's intention to procure rent and keep a watch over the man. The Hospital Trust have expressed their willingness to provide bedding and meals for the patient, but decline to admit him into the Hospital. The man has been knocking about with Chinamen at Round Hill, and is in a very bad state.
Dr. J. B. Russell, the Glasgow medical officer of health, delivered a lecture on "The Children of our Cities," under the außpicea of the Edinburgh Health Society, on December 18th. He stated that 153 out of every 1,000, children born in Glasgow died within the first year, In the large towns of England the rate was still higher, averaging 185 per 1,000, while in Liverpool it had risen to 219 and in Leicester to 245 per 1,000. Lord Young, one of the judges of the Court of Session, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, said that hehadalways been struck, as a judge of the Supreme Criminal Court, with the remarkable fact that there was perhaps less crime in Glasgow than- in any other town of the same size in the world. He wae gcing in two days to an assize where the Court eat for a population of over a million, the oases numbered only 40 or 42, and he aid pot think, there was £20 worth involved in dishonesty applicable to property. Lord Young 'concluded by .saying that he thoaght Malthus's Advice to people not to have such large families was a leeeon which had better be impressed to a large extent at loaet,
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 5
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353A SHOCKING CASE. A European Afflicted With Leprosy. Invercargill, March 23. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 5
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