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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 315, 16 July 1898, Page 5 (Supplement)

Job printing of all descriptions executed with neatness and despatch at The Akgus Office, Hamilton. Satisfaction guaranteed. From an official report cm leprosy in New South Wales, dated November 7th, 1896, which is the last report to hand relating to leprosy in that colony, it appears that on January Ist, 1895, forty lepers were under detention at the lazaret at Little Bay. Iu August, 1806, twenty-five leper patients were recurned, from Australia to China, of whom six were from Queensland (being the entire number of Chinese lepers then in the colony), and in July of last year four more" Chinese lepers, out of ten from Australia generally, were sent back to their country from Queensland. Owing to the vigilance which is exercised by the department charged with the administration of the Leprosy Act, and to the self-interest, especially observable among the Chinese, which leads to information rather than concealment, there are presumably very few -cases of leprosy in the colony which are not either included in the official reports or now under investigation as suspected