To, the Editor of the "Nowrm-Citina Dairy News."
Sk—I have been wondering late whether some Leper Institution had closed down and turned its Me mates into the streets. It is appalling to be confronted with the dreadfully disfigured beggars I have recently encountered in the northern end of Yates Road, Avenue Road and on Nanking Road, between the Bund and Honan Road presume it is leprosy.
The beggar on Yates Road ix a child, led' by another child, and 1 have' seen him several times. But the man who haunts Nanking Road I have seen for more than 15} years!
Cannot, the Police do something!
jour it? It is a shame that children should be frightened in this manner, to say nothing of the danger of infection, Of course a uniformed policeman would, probably, never see. these beggars, and n' Chinese or Indian poliecmin, I suppose, would not] bother about them. anyway. But! the matter should he attended to without delay
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.