Year's Dosage of Curative to be Produced for 11d.
London, Feb, 20, The annual report of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, which will meet on February 24, predicts the complete stamping out of leprosy within the next ten years by means of a treatment with oil extracted from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree. Stations for treatment will be started in the various parts of the Empire where the disease is prevalent, with the active ce-operation of the Imperial and Dominion Government It is estimated that sufferers from leprosy exceed "4,000,000, of which number 416,000 reside in' the British Empire, Lieut-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, physician" and lecturer, London School of Tropical Medicine, said in the course of an interview to-day that the demand for the oil exceeds" the supply, A hundred thousand doses have been sent out in the past three months, the cost of manufacture being 2/64. fora year's supply per person, but the new process of extraction will reduce this to lid. Steps will be taken, hho said, extensively to plant the bydnocaipus tree in suitable coun. tries, Sir Leonard declared that it had been indubitably established that nearly every cate of leprosy can be prevented from reaching an infective atage—Reuter,
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