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Show SYRIAN LEPER IS SENT FROM WEST VIRGINIA TO HIS FORMER ABODE meeting yesterday of the New Tork Board of Health, said: "As the two medical members of the ; Board of Health, Dr. Darlington and I are agreed that in New York leprosy Is not a factor in State sanitation, we don't consider It at all further than to hold that in this country it is not a menace to the public. No, there Is no prohlblton against this poor outcast coming com-ing to New York. "I think it most inhuman the way this man was treated," declared Dr. Doty. "Tuberculosis is more communicative. Yet we have no sentiment behind a movement move-ment to segregate consumptives." PARKE RSBURG, W. Va.. Aug. 2. George Rossett, ,the Syrian leper, who has been an uninvited guest in this city since Tuesday noon, was last night smuggled away in a special train on the Baltimore & Ohio with two Constables Consta-bles to Elklns, his former abode. Ros-sett's Ros-sett's 'deportation was arranged in secrecy se-crecy and was not generally known. Rossett's removal was . by order of Gov. Dawson. On a grassy plot at the rear of the Baltimore & Ohio station, with ropes stretched about to keep back, the people, Rossett spent his time while here sleeping sleep-ing and talking with those who ventured near. He did not seem to mind the ir-cumstances ir-cumstances In connection with his trip to this city and claimed the Parkersburg people gave him better treatment than he received elsewhere. The District Attorney's office sent a telegram to Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, asking that the State take charge of Rossett and have him sent over to North Brothers island, N. Y., but no answer was received. A box car was sidetracked Tuesday night bear where the leper took up his quarters and he refused to take it, preferring pre-ferring the open air. From then until he left the city he camped on the unsheltered unshel-tered ground without a bed of any sort.' : B. & O. officials say Rossett ate heartily hear-tily and despite the fact that he had been shunned and neglected had an abundance of food.. The trial of the officials and the Maryland officials who are charged with bringing Rossett here has not yet been held. It Is set for tonight and all three will appear, having given bonds. The railroad company contends that It was not responsible for Rossett's visit here. |