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Show Five Thousand Lepers. The Paris Dix-Neuvieme Siecle pub-sha pub-sha information received by private itters from New Caledonia which is ikalated to cause some anxiety. It ap-ean ap-ean that leprosy is spreading in New aledonia in a most alarming manner. fiO.OOO Kanakas no fewer than 5,000 re described as suffering from the ter-Hs ter-Hs disease. Till quite recently the iic authorities had taken no meas-resto meas-resto prevent it from spreading; but w two subordinate colonies have been reated one on Goat Island, in Dumbea iy, and the other in Canala, at a spot MwiasthePic des Morts. Every in abitant recognized as a leper by the ledical commission is to be confined in :eof these leper colonies. The corres-'sdent corres-'sdent of The Wx-Neuvieme Siecle Ares that this measure has been de-red de-red too long to prove of any great use, 'fl that it is not applied properly. Iiw Europeans have already been at-Aed at-Aed by this incurable disease. |