Show LEPROSY THRIVES ON CANARY ISLANDS Washington April 12 The existence of about lepers on the Island of Te Teneriffe Teneriffe Canaty Canary Islands has been officially ci reported here bere by b United States Consul Berliner at Teneriffe He says there thore are three distinct classes of lepro leprosy I sy in Teneriffe island namely I elephantiasis and tuberculosis The disease diverges into two main varieties the spotted and the I nodular The report is based on per personal I serial investigation and assistance of physicians and says I I Leprosy is somewhat endemic I among Amon people here on account of their eating a good dead of fish often putrid p I As and their general generl i being contagious it Is generally dis discredited discredited credited OIl here but hut in my opinion it is I Ivery very infectious In former years Spain had bad established a colony at Grand Ca Canary Canary Canary nary for lepers They were housed I I there but had hud perfect liberty to wander about with the restriction that they must dw dwell ell at the houses built for them I In course of time this law became a dead letter and i they spread i over the differs ds dst I j jAt At t Santa Santo Cruz tiC Ufe u the cap eap capital capital ital hat there are lepers fit fifteen fifteen teen of whom are men there also are arc I Isome some seine children of these unfortunates They are given a place about fifteen They are given a place fifteen miles mil s from the city hall ball where they live are also living at nt the same place about 2 people besides nearly neary all aU beggars You meet them a V all times of the day in town or road asking alms and ex exposing exposing posing their limbs Many have no fin fingers finger fingers gers ger or toes and hobble along and anda a amore amore more pitiable sight is hard hart to imagine Officially it is not recognized that leprosy exists on the island The pro provincial provincial government tt t Teneriffe has lately built a large building about two miles mUes out of town The building has hasI I two to separate wings one lne for insane patients and the other for tor lepers United States Consular Agent Swans Swanston ton on Grand Canary island in an another another another other report says that leprosy there is decidedly decreasing There are fifty patients In the leper hospital at La Lo A few families infected with willi the disease live in their own homes Plague Patient Recovering covering Chicago April 12 A special to the theR R from Ann Arbor Mich says ays Dr Novy Nov when asked regarding the condition condl on of Charles B Hare the student who Is supposed suppo ed to have the bubonic plague said Nothing yet has been decided but he is recovering rap rapidly rapidly rapIdly idly He Is out of bed and walks I around occasionally inside the conta contagion I I glob gion ward ard He will wm be kept there until I II I I week after next anyway anya and arid until it itis itis Itis is certain he cannot spread any infection tion Student who is car caring carIng I ing lag for Cor Hare has lies not nol caught any In ln Infection |