Show MA AY Y AID TJ r ip H E LEJ P E S NATIONAL HOSPITAL NEEDED TO CARE FOR THEM PROPERLY two recent cases call attention to the existence of plague but no provision for adequate trat tr at merit ment and isolation lo lation washington tho the agitation in over the baily leprosy case and in arizona over the case of mra airs wardwill la Is expected by officials oHl clala of the public health and marine hos hoa pital service to lead to a renewed of ef fort to obtain lie he establishment of a natio lonal nall hospital for the isolation bud and treatment ot of leprosy an effort to obtain legislation to this end cod which wits supported support eil by many in men embers ibera ot of tho the medical fra throughout the countr country nry was made by the public health and marine hospital bervice in 1905 1005 and a bill for uch such an institution received favorable reports in both hOI house B or of congress it failed of passage however largely bee ec ause of objections from localities in which it was that the lepio lopic Barlum should be the bill did not name any state of 0 terri territory toty but provided that an abandoned military or ar naval reservation should bo be abed it was waa understood however boever that tile the had new mexico in mind as aa the most desirable location and tho the delegate from that territory was wag not slow blow in in ieng known the tion of tile hla constituents when legislation la is reached again tile the health bureau will be ready with nil 11 tho the statistics and arguments feces bury bary to win ain consideration for the bill the statistics les however are not very recent as aa they do not nim roach 11 any ily nearer the tha present time than 1901 in chrt a commission compo composed ged of BUi Roona geOng connected wl with th the bit b mau re an made a thorough investigation of lepione in the united states finding that them theio cases la in tie he coun t and that they were avre scattered V through 21 states louisiana led the list 1 with I th cases or wore more than halt half the entire number california and I 1 lorada follo followed Aed with 24 eath Minu minnesota with mith 20 and north dakota with 16 the remaining cases basea found in georgia illinois miry mary land massachusetts mississippi mis AIN souil montana nevada new boik oregon pennsylvania south dakota texas and wisconsin of all aliese cases only 72 wore more lao the commission was of the opinion that its ita report did not cover all cases and the belief was expressed that many ot of them were hidden in its report the corn com mission included the general beconi mediations men latsons ions of the international lep losy conf conference evence for tie isolation of casts as tho the best method to prevent the spread of the disease it nas as ric om commended mended also that two institutions one in fit tho the coith and the other in the south bo be established in ili the absence of surgeon general enman no one connected with the public health service will undertake to say positively that the tha bill will bo be but many la in cline to the tha opinion that it will be because of the necessity for protecting the general public and tor for dealing with sith victims la in a dumani tadan way aay and also because of the difficult ILS in having individual states caro care for them thein |