"Nontn-Cuiwa Dau News"
Sin,—Those who have the interest of the lepers in China at heart will be greatly encouraged by your leader on this subject in this morning's Paper. But there is one sentence in'that leader to which exception must be taken, You say "What is most required at the present moment is the enactment of drastic gislation along: the lines. adopted other countries, which, ultimately led to its disappearance."
company with many other leprologists, 1 would deny the truth of the premise anil still. more the inference drawn therefore. The question of the relation of seqrega ion to the stumping out of leprosy ype has Tong been a matter dispute but it-can hardly be fouestioned that modern efforts to solve the problem in this way have] been almost enrive failures, except where communities of very' limited Hize have been involved in these measures. On the contrary seems evident that any attempts fat vigid segregation in recent mes "have been followed. by. an finevease rather than a decrease of leprosy wherever this measure hes been attempted among large popula. tions.
Further, in the countries where! leprosy is) most prevalent any' pro-!
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