Press reports alleging that the local authorities have Killed a number of lepers are -offclally denied by the Police Bureau Interviewed, a spokesman of the Bureau declared: "There'are several hundred lepers. in this -munleipallty. In order to protect the health of the jople, the Bureau instructed " the various Branch Bureaux to investigate and round up leper suspects, These were examined at a hospital fand-then re-examined by the Muni cipal Public Health Bureau,—Mo eighty were found to be suff from leprosy, and sent to a small island near Lingting. Yang (sea) for segregation, Those less affected were sent to hospi treatment, while those found suffering ' from the dis soleased, The reports that have been put to death by shooting are entirely false'"—Kuo Min,
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