SUPPOSED LEPROSY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 119, 27 August 1910, Page 5

SUPPOSED LEPROSY

THIRD PATIENT FOR QUAIL ISLAND. TV Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. T:;3 utmost reticence is being; observed by the officials of the Health Department regarding the case of a man who was placed in the leper station at Quail Islands Lyttelton, on Wednesday. His arrival was not altogether a surprise, as it has ibeen rumored for some time that a third patient would be placed on the island. The patient is a white man, apparently between thirty and forty years of age, and is said- to show plain signs of some disease in his face. He has taken up his residence in one of three cottage at the leper station, which was vacated last year by a young Maori, who was discharged as cured. It is understood the new patient originally came from Queensland, and that there is little doubt lie is suffering from leprosy. It is stated that the other two patients are in such a state that they now require the assistance of a third (white) man, who has been on Quail Island for three or four years, and is said to be almost Wind. The Maori patient, too, is said to ue very badly affected in his hands.