Show LEPROSY IN INDIA we hear a great deal about that loathsome d iwase disease leprosy in the Ha hawaiian wallan Is islands lauds where it has obtained a terrible foothold and has decimated whole families Au nilles and some districts but it appears that in india from which no great outcry has been heard as to this dreadful disorder there are hosts of victims to its awful ravages in 1881 the census shows there were in india no less than known lepers of whom at least two thirds were men and boys the number has since greatly increased and many not reported who have been secreted by their friends would gateris materially ay swell the total the disease can only be destroyed by complete segregation of the sexes and the life separation of the patients and this is highly repugnant to the Hin doos little is done towards checking it and the local authorities despair of stamping it out the british government will have to adopt some strenuous measures or the terrible destroyer will work frightful havoc among the millions who inhabit that torrid region |