Mr. Perry Burgess Coming East to Investigate Mean. spect, service Washington, Nov. 22.
Announcement was made hele to-aay that Perry Burgess, head of the Leonard Wood Memorial Fund for the eradication of leprosy, has Sccepied.an_ invitation from' Governor-General Divight Davis to visit the Philippines. He is. to sail the next westward voyage of the Empress of Asia.
"After, Afr. Borgpss has visited leprny centres in the Pitingine with special attention to the Gulion Neper colony and investigation of the effects of chaulmoogra oil and wounded.. The bandits stole from the party their entire food supplies and all the clothing they could and then sank two of the junks. The children were forced to go without food and those whose junks had been sunk were forced to walla until they reached Paotaochen, where two of the children died, partly from starvation, partly from fright, It was discovered then that four the children were missing and it is presumed that they had either died of starvation or had fallen from exhaustion.
After reaching Paotaochen, they: were given food and later sent to ug, concludes the repo: other treatments, he will proceed to China and Japan.
While in China and Japan, Me.
li confer with the foro~ authorities regarding: the desirability of establishing [foundation for the study of txo1 diseases.—Unitod Press.
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