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Show LEPER8 ARE CURED. But Years of Their Lives Are Wasted and They Are Left Desolate. Honolulu. After somo of them had spent twenty years of their llfo in the leper settlement on the Island .ot Molokal, ton ot eleven lopors who wero returned here at the Instance ot the territorial legislative commltteo for ro-oxnmlnntion havo been found free or tho disease Ot these, two aro boys of six arid seven yenrst but tho others vary In age from 27 to 79, and somo of them havo spent many years In .tho 'settlement. A pathetic feature ot thq re-oxaml-nation Is tho probability that some of tho older patlentB will petition to bo returned to the Island, as. they havo been shut 'off' from the wdrld and tlm!r friends so long that they havo no plnco elso to go. A few of tho patients were sent to .tho Bottlomont bqforo tho bnctorlologtcal test for leprosy was" discovered, and It Is believed be-lieved that In some cases a natural cure has boon effected. |