Show J I I Lepers May Wed But Must Lose Babies HE Russian Medical Council has T THE given permission for lepers to marry with each other but not with healthy mates The Lancet remarks that as the birth r rate among lepers is iser er very low tho the percentage of at Infant leprosy Is only about 5 per par cent But Dut It adds it Is la Imperative that arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments be bo made mado In advance and tho the reasons carefully explained beforehand beforehand before belore- hand to the leprous parents to re remove remove re- re move mo at once an any newly born infant I from the tho custody of oC its mother to a a. distant home provided by the authorities authorities ties child ma may mav v row grow up without danger of acquiring the in infection In In- I from Cram its maternal parent For leprosy y is Js not believed to be hereditary but the intimate contact between a mother and a nursing baby Is the surest means of or conveying the infection |