The health condition of the Nan" tungchow and Jukao hsien is good, No special epidemics are threatening the population, Malaria, ho fever, is on the increase, A decade jor two ago malaria was hardly Known, now it is only too common fag is seen from the clinic reports *|from hospitals, The same is true typhoid fever, a comparatively new disease in" this community. Leprosy, is on the increase. Th mission hospital at Jukao alone hi Jo leper clinic registering 180. ps fients, Hookworm is extremely common here and a. serious handicap for the infected person, Leprosy history dates back in. the "Jukao Jcommunity for several generation Practically, all those so affected a farmers. The city of Jukao hag very.
fare also very few. Practically all of few ncdn eases. 1 Tepere the lepers treated at the free clinic fare farmers, have their homes and live with their people, The history of these cases seem to indicate that leprosy isnot over contagious probably a soil and home me fection only to be contracted under certain conditions. The function of perspiration is known to have decided effect upon the disease, practically all affected parts of lo: pers being known to. be without perspiration, From the clinic records, we were told, some of the earliest symptoms of leprosy in the Sukao hsien are nose bleeding, pain followed by numbness, Later on pat ches develop. The farmers believe hat early cases are curable. The leper specialist in Hwaian has sent his remedy to Jukao for a The results thus far are not specta alan, The remedy However, has tong been known in the Jukao section as valuable in leprosy. 1
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