Over 200 in Shanghai: One-fifth Under Treatment Shanghai can hardly be called fred of lepers, according to Dr. T. Gy Wa, general secretary of the Chiness Mission to Lepers. "As a matter. of fact, there are more than 200 lepers in the city," he told press repre~ sentatives, "and approximately 100 of these have already been identified and will soon be placed under segregation."
"That leprosy is a real problem in Shanghai becomes apparent when one stops to think of the associations that many people unknowingly Rave with the victims of this dread disease every day," he continued, "Certainly, the lepers in this city should all' be segregated; but that takes time, If the present plans of the Chinese Mission to Lepers materialize, we shall have most of them under treatment. in another year.
"Since the establish leper clinic on Dixwell Road three months ago, much has been accom plished, When the institution was first opened, we had only two lepers under treatment. To-day, we have segregated twenty and according to recent figures from St. Luke's Hospital, there are twenty lepers receiving treatment there, making. a total of 40 for the whole of Shanghai." 1 The story surrounding, the establishment of the leper clinic is me teresting inasmuch as a disinterentod: party, a visitor to: Shanghai at the time, supplied the Mission with the information that lepers are living Ju Shanghai and pointed to several cases, The first group of lepers was found in the Hongkew District on Dixwell Road and it was here that the Mission decided to open its clinic, Tt was difficult at first to convince the lepers that they should take treatment. Most of them Rnew little about the disease except, tha they were affected with something terrible. To-day, those who have been segregated' are no longer afraid and the work of th snout making rapid progress,
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