Show Y V v AN APPEAL FROM 1 THE LEPER Ily LEONARn WOOD Throughout the world today theris there ther is deep and widespread Interest Inthe in inthe inthe the treatment and care of leprosy England has organized the British Empire o Ar Leprosy l society and i is making arrangements for a widespread wide wide- spread effective effective- c campaign against f rs this dread r disease a In India and elsewhere In the Philippines we have about abou lepers of whom are segI segregated seg seg- regaled and under treatment on I Cullon Culion Island the worlds world's largest larges leper colony The care Ir and d treat treat- i men mea of prosy leprosy has been e dc c carrier carried fet on here ere steadily for tor the past twenty years ears and in Intensive form during the past three years Well W ell known experts on leprosy have visited Culion culion culion Cu cu- lion and are unstinted in the their praise of ot the dhe work ork being done Ou Our efforts have been limited only by bythe bythe bythe the means available The results are most encouraging We have already negatives an and several hundred more In sight 75 per cent of or the cases under treatment treat- treat meat mert are improved and 19 have been returned to their homes allf as na f looked cured C- C d u upon The 8 Cullon people with who g l fear formerly i and dread are commencing to look upon it as a a place not of segregation and I Imprisonment but as a place of f fI f t db eP care treatment and possible s b cure I believe we are O on the verge of great gree results in the treatment and care of leprosy But Cut we need help We Ve are working not on only ly for the lepers here but for lepers all over the world and our success will be theirs as well The insular jular appropriations tot fox the colony colony are are about third one-third of the entire public public pub pub- lic tic health appropriation less less we need more money and the Insular government cannot give more This Ibis money will be used for tor additional buildings for roa roads to agricultural lan lands s. s and for tor the es establishment establishment es- es of small agricultural and segregation groups and especially especially espe espe- I for tor trained personnel ra oty equipment additional wards equipment and skilled personnel or research work and treatment I want to raise a million dollars for tor these purposes Money cannot cannot can can- not be better spent Not only will willIt It be for the immediate benefit benera or orthe orthe orthe the lepers themselves but it will willbe willbe be for the general study and treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment of the disease which I I be believe believe be be- lieve can can be eradicated In these Islands In Co other her words we shall shail render a great service to stricken humanity throughout large portions of the world and demonstrate that thai this dread disease can be controlled We re were successful in our efforts to eradicate yellow rellow fever and to control malaria in ir C Cuba ba The methods methods meth meth- there employed have made the tropics as safe as the temperate zone We have rendered the Pmt Pant islands safe sate against cholera smallpox and plague by scientific methods of control We Ve are now carrying on this eradication ra of ot leprosy We nee need t your help The American people great campaign for the control ant and have ever been generous in supporting support support- in ing movements of this kind and I again appeal to their generosity and spirit t of service In behalf of these stricken people who are the he most unfortunate and afflicted of Grids GOds cr creatures Contributions may be made payable payable payable pay pay- able to the chief of the bureau or ot Insular affairs war department Washington D. D C. C They will be transmitted transmUted to tho the Philippine islands and spent under the direction of ot the governor general |