| Show NOT CAUSED 0 BY FISH observation OF DS DR TURNER BEGAB DIKa LEPROSY results of his ills investigations among patient Pat in south africa believes late t on Is due to bome vermin vernun leprosy must labb added to the other scourges which afflict south af rici until rece recently atly the extent to wai h this disease v aa as prevalent in south africa wa little known the fact that it existed in the transvaal waa was practically quite unknown yet dr hurner the health officer of tho the transvaal reports that whereas there were lck cases in his charge in there are now over dr turner adds the lemarl able fact that no ono I 1 news how many lepers there are ia is the tran vaal vital he says that a medical officer who hd been in charge of the lepers and had tal tat en on much interest st in the matter asserted that there were at least 00 in 1900 1 the d ocise is defying the most heroic eferts at its extermination in cape colony while it ie Is also spreading in Basu toland and elsewhere the worst afflicted are the hottentots the kaffits with aith tat tj exception of 0 the bu ru ro being the least prof jonathan hutchinson s theon theor that eating ash fth cured ie la the chief cause of 0 the disease h has as been ully fully bet set forth his ants and statistics are bogent but hitherto have found little support dr turner as the result ot most careful in tion dif differt feris absolutely from ur ir hutchinson official returns show that 10 0 per cent of the total amount of fish en on bering ring the transvaal Crans vaal BOO goos to johannes burg nearly all of this Is eaten by whites but until december there was not a single european in the johan leper bo hospital spital then a mart marr who was born in europe was admitted he was a member of a large family all of N whom horn are living in the frans vaal none of the others is a iper I per in dr turner s oi opinion nion his disease was clearly the result of contag on a be habitually as with a leper of dr s patients 44 pe cent had eaten fish only 17 per cent of which was cured fish among th white loners 90 9 per cent had eaten fish 45 per cent of which was cured fish P mong the colored patients who made up tour four fifths of the total only oo 00 per cent ever tasted fish and only ten had eaten cured aft elsh sh dr turner is co convinced that conta couta gion is the moat most usual mea means of the spread of leprosy he treated a few cases in which it was possible to a art blat its of 01 rin oin was hereditary bit practically noes none in which con glon could I 1 excluded and several in which contagion was the sole explanation he believes it will eventually b bo 3 proved tat list ome vermin is iz the carea of the infect aa t |
