Show 1200 1200 LEPERS AT URGE LARGE IN NATION I 1 1 public ile health ill gerilee sen ice warns of dangers of insufficient care washington june 29 capital news service dr C 11 lavinder assistant surgeon general ot of the public health service warns the nation of the dangers of 0 its 1200 lepers now at al large in 25 states he plans to ask congress for funds and authority to round round up all lepers and provide suitable quarters tor for them while remarkable results are being obtained in combating leprosy in other countries it is on the increase here he said in the tropics n notably in hawaii lepers are being cured by the use of chaulmoogra chalmo ogra oil one ot of tile the new discoveries but we have no success with it here due to a difference in the blood consistency in this climate and ot of tills this race we have built a at cardville carrville Carr ville la it has rooms tor for only patients and now every available bed Is ig occupied we are compelled to inform health officers who come to us that there is no room As it is next to impossible for each city to construct its own the sufferers are at large and each day some one cornea comes in son tact with them to the possibilities of the disease being communicated to others |