Need) for Government Annual Appropriations to Continue Task of Cure Manila, Apr. 22.
The greatest problem now confronting the Philippines health authorities in the Cullen leper colony is to keep the field already won so that the disease may be completely put under control, in the opinion of Dr. Victor C. Heiser, Far Eastern representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, who has just returned from an inspection of the Cullen colony. Dr. Heiser at one time was director of health of the Philippines.
"This work can be done by con-tinaing annual appropriations from the legislature to carry on the tas: 0 well started," said Dr. Heiser. "The greatest danger is that some day the taxpayers may get tired of supporting the colony and drop' it altogether. All. the ground so. far covered in the fight against the disease would be lost, should the appropriations for support of the colony and the treatment of the lopers be cut off "Phe Government spends annually about, $500,000 for leprosy work in the Philippines, the per capita cost. being about 25 cents to the people of the islands. There are now 6,500 leper patients in Cullen and approximately 300 are cured every year under the new treatments. Of the newly arrived patients" in Cullen, 20 per cent. recover and this proportion may be raised to 90 er cent, should the present treatment be continued. The new treatments, the ethylesther, the Mereado and Indian treatment, are employed according to each individual cas Dr. Heiser said the work of comating leprosy in Cution would be. made easier if goat's milk were available in large quantities, is considered perhaps a more substantial food than cow's milk and the latter is hard to obtain—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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