Manila, Jan. 4.
Gut of Cullen Leper Colony, a palm-fringed city of disease in one of the central Philippine Islands, has grown one of the most. enormous plans for the wholesale eradication of leprosy the world has ever conceived.
of Perry Burgess, of New York, With the recent visit to Manila secretary of the' Leonard Wood Memorial Fund for the Eradication of Leprosy, has been revealed a plan to make Manila the centre of a far-reac medical research institute, with clinics located all over the Orient, devoted to the study of tropical' and Oriental diseases.
Plans are still in the formation stage, but a ready and enthusiastic response to the new Leonard Wood plan has already been received Japan and China, where Burgess has visited on a hurried trip to the Orient to lay definite plans for the foundation of this new institute.
The success of the treatment of means of living are concerned, It has its cobblers, its farmers, its shops—every attribute of a healthy, city—even to motion pictures, which are the city's chief form of diver-'Among its inmates are num-many" foreigners,, including Americans, Germans, Spanish and other Cent '00 Big {o Stop at Cullen The spirit that has built Cullen and the medical knowledge that has nade cures possible through the use of the famous chaulmoogra oil, is now considered too broad and too big a thing to stop at Culic to stop with the allevis suffering in the Philippine Islands, Burgess explained on his visit here, While there are only about 12,000 lepers here, there are 3,000,000 in the world. Hence the conception of un institution with centres spread throughout the Far East, carrying con both research and pathology, The appeal of Cullen already has. been the means of raising through the promotion of the Leonard Wood Memorial Fund in the United States, more than $1,500,000. This Jsum must be increased if the broadened plan is to be put through.
Mr. Burgess said in a statement: to the press before his departure from Manila:
"One cannot visit Cullen, Cebu and Hollo as I had the opportunity of doing without coming away with certain very deep and solemn impressions.
"One is impressed by tha devotion of the doctors, scientists, nurses, workers for the church, Catholic and Protestant, all of whom have voluntarily accepted what means virtually temporary exile for the purpose of carrying out this great undertaking.
"The picture that Sisters Marie and Calixte gave me of the utter error that possessed every one of the 380 patients who first landed in Cullen in 1906, and the fact that how most of those received come as volunteers, eagerly and hopefully seeking the health which is offered them. speaks louder of kidneys, sympa leprosy' in the Philippines, in Calion, the chief colony, and in Cebu, "Molle and several other curative centres, has led to the conception of this broader plan which before it is fully developed may extend its branches around the world,
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