The Archive · 1924

Leper Mission Jubilee

'The jubilee of the Mission to Lepers has been celebrated in Scotland, and a large demonstration was held' in Edinburgh. Dr. Them: Cochrane, founder and principal of the Union Medical College, Peking, and hon. secretary of the British'advisory Board on Medical Missions, was the principal speaker. He stated that the work of the Mission now embraced India, Siam, Malaya, the Southern Pacific, China, Korea, Japan, America, and Paris. The Japanese Government was beginning to take an interest in it. Desferibing the work in Korea, he said that the treatment there was producing wonderful results, and was! a-great contribution to stifle progress. Last year about 200 lepers had been discharged from the asylums without any trace of the disease, They were now making survey of the world to find out all, they could about leprosy. The Rev.

Morris spoke of the work in South China. In 1912, heasaid, 39 lepers were there driven into a pit by order of officialdom, shot and burnt. Certain British missionaries were determined that such an out~ rage should not take place again. A. remarkable change had taken place in the attitude of the officials warfs the lepers of South Chine tot hostility was gradual. ly being transformed into "one of charity, and the leper was receiving civic attention. The Mission to Lepers is now working} at 95 stations in 18 different eoun-

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