Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-21 | Page 1 | Wearing Rats in Hair Cause of Leprosy

I TS tN HAIR CAUSE OF LEPROSY st St Joul Fob Feb on tiomi received b by the board or of health that ton there are 1 two wo girls In the thc ell city sur suf from le leprosy caused b by the wear wearIng In Ing or Of rat rates made ot of Alin AsIatic lie hair G J A Jorian Jeran assistant health commissioner ot of St LOlis announced today that he would begin an Into the tile sale or of goO geed hors here Time rhe two tO victims or of the malady are be beInG beIng InG Ing treated In Iii St Sl secretly anti and Dr Jordan wi will mao make m an effort to have them located and amid quarantined Time fhe girls according to 10 the health hoards boards Informant were store employed untIl untIla a few few days ago In a store lore down town The or of the store hat them both sent enl to n a physIcian whose hol name the tho halh health board II is seeking to learn II TitO Tho two women were wern removed d to toI toa a Private sanitarium where the Ire are he heIng I Ing guarded