Show A mcw leper colons five afflicted with the leprosy were recently removed from victoria B C to aland which will now ba used exclusively as a lazaretto the patients objected strenuously and one of them attempted to commit suicide but was prevented darcey island ia situated about twenty miles from victoria and is one of the san juan archipelago it has an area of about acres and is a beautiful spot this island was uninhabited and was reserved by the provincial government it was selected by mayor grant and alderman holland of victoria as an appropriate location for a lazaretto the building is a strong and substantial frame house divided into six good eizel rooms each of which opens on a covered porch each apartment has a cooking stevo and table an iron bedstead with spring mattress and plenty of bed clothing each of the lepers has a room to himself and all are supplied with abundant utensils for housekeeping rice sugar flour meat bacon potatoes dried fish and every imaginable delicacy dear to the celestial appetite are piled up in the apartment utilized as a general storeroom nothing has been overlooked even opium was provided and when the miserable wrecks of humanity found out they would not be deprived of their soothing drug they laughed and chatted gleefully san francisco examiner |