| Show J KNOWN CASKS OF OP LEPROSY Returns Too fur General to 10 Mako Inko Report on New York July 11 HA A Washington dispatch to time the Tribune says The rite surgeon general of oC tho the marine hospital service Is not ready to publish the time results thus titus for far obtained under his hl direction In the tho attempt to enumerate the known cases of ot leprosy In the United States for Cor or the tho returns are far from complete Hut sufficient material has already alread been blon secured FlUre by b the ex ox experts exers ers who have been Investigating for Cur forthe tho the lust last two years to Indicate that there are at least Il st one thousand lepers In this country countr most of oC them Immigrants grants from abroad and to warrant starting recommendations to Congress for their segregation The Tle commission consisting of or Surgeon J 1 II J White chairman anti and Passed Pale Assistant Bur Sur Burgeons Burgeons geons goons Q G T r Vaughan and M 71 J Rose Hose HOle liau Inu have been working under eon congressIonal grell Ional authority since They The sent ut circular letters leters to health of or officers hospital era in iii 11 six hundred localities covering the entire entro country countr asking for tor reports and und Information regarding leprosy patients pa vu tents Eight thousand circulars have been beon sent out and nn only two thousand thou nd replies have havo hlo been boen received From I rm these them the 1 lepers have ha vo been heen located and their anti and addresses obtained About one hundred hun rd are known to tl live In n New Nest Orleans many of at whom at am 11 wel u to do of ot good 1001 families In New cw York seven von cases cares Ote have been reported In San Francisco Francl co fifteen Ileen cases caes are known twelve are confined In the pest iest house houte Owing to tho tIme foot fact that of ot the time circulars have brought blought no rc re lilies pl especially front from suspicious dis districts dl the authorities estimate animate that list only about of at the cases case of lt leprosy have hn e been ben reported The Tho commission will wil almost certainly recommend to Congress In Its forth Corth forthcoming forthcoming coming preliminary report lort that nation national naton al be bo established In t several parts arts of ot tho the country one perhaps at al New Orleans one In New York and amid another In Minnesota or Montana |
