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Show JOHN K0KAS. GREEK LEPER, WILL NOW BE DEPORTED Potor KoukopulaB. alias John Kokas. the Greek leper who has' beon hold In custody for over two weeks by tho city health authorities, will be deported to his nntlve country by the United States government gov-ernment unless tho present plans of the board of health fall. Friday night T. DeWItt Foster, clerk of tho city board of health, who with Health Commissioner S. G. Paul located and took Into custody cus-tody the man, visited tho placo where ho Is Isolated In company with a no'ary public. Koukopulas signed an affidavit In which he stated that he had been suffering from the loathsome disease for over eighteen months and contracted IL In Grceco before be-fore coming to the United Slates. Ho expressed a willingness to be deported and the health officers took the matter up Saturday with tho government officers. offi-cers. It Is likely that the man will be sent east within a few days in custody of a. government officer. |