LEPROSY IN COOK ISLANDS
A REPORT DENIIiD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. Mr. Carl Kolm, a gentleman now in Wellington, but who lived for nineteen veals in Raratongji, derides the reported spread of leprosy in the Cook Islands. lie characterises it as an alarmist report from the usual source—the London Missionary Society. He considers the statement that the people are doomed if precautionary meas'ures are not taken as "preposterous." There has been leprosy in the group for forty years, but it is confined to Penhyrn Island, 050 miles from Raratonga, and the victims are isolated on an islet. O'll.v two ca»es have been heard of in Kuratonga year*, and one of them was sent back to Tahiti, whence he came.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 128, 28 June 1909, Page 2
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120LEPROSY IN COOK ISLANDS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 128, 28 June 1909, Page 2
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