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Show LEPERS ABOUND IN CRETE. All Conditions Favorable to Spread of Hideous Disease. In tho small Island of Crcto leprosy Is shockingly prevalent. Tho Cretans havo themselves to thank for this state of affairs. The houses may bo pretty and whltowashcd on tho outside, but within tho filth Is fearful. And the food they eat Is Just what encourages leprosy. Tho Greek religion forbids meat about two hundred days out ol tho year, so as good Christians they must llvo on salt fish, which Is not Improved by Its long Journoy from northern seas to southern heat The ollvo oil Is so plontlful thoy export twenty thousand tons each year that they uso It to oxcess, oven adding It to tho milk of a rlco pudding. But the crowning evil Is pork, tho favorlto faro of thu Cretans on days when tho church allows them to cat meat. Tho leper Is not cut off horo as ho is in tho Fiji Islands or nt tho Cape. Outside Out-side each vlllngo may bo Boon n Uttlo whlto houso called tho "loprochorlon." Hero tho lepers live. Their estates, If thoy havo any, nro administered for them by friends, and any ono passing by tho door may speak to them. If tho sufferers bo poor tho stato provides pro-vides each day a loaf of bread and tho cLarlty of passers-by adds tho luxuries. |