Salt Lake Herald | 1891-03-21 | Page 1 | Leprosy at Victoria, B. C.

Leprosy at Victoria B C OTTAWA Ont March 20Vord has reached here from Victoria of the discovery dis-covery of six new cases of leprosy right m the heart of the city which Chinamen were endeavoring to conceal It appears it became be-came necessary for the municipal authorities authori-ties to drive a large number of Chinamen out af their hovels which were erected on ground required for building a market hall The stampede disclosed the fact that six Chinese lepers in the worst Rtage of the disease had been dwelling with their countrymen in the vacated hovels Two of them were subsequently subse-quently found but four of them are still in hiding and their friends refuse to disclose their place of refuge Upon bearing the facts Deputy Minister of Agriculture Lowe ordered an investigation by the local medical officers and 1 medical export will be dispatched to the Pacific coast to follow the matter up The worst feature of the case is that the Chinamen who have been secreting these lepers do washing for the citizens of Victoria and it is impossible now to say to what extent the disease has been communicated in this way among the white population