London, Apr. 26.
"There are at least 2,000,000 lepers n the British Empire" stated Sir William Peel, Chairman of the Britisn Empire Leprosy Relief Association, n a speech at the annual meeting of the India office today.
It was believed in some colonies, he said, that the disease was tending to increase.
The Association had obtained the services of a number of young lay workers who were ready to go abroad to devote their lives, on a bare subsistence allowance to the lepers of the Empire, but it could not at present afford to send out more, ugh many places needed such kers, Maj.-Gen. Sir Cuthbert Sprawson, Professor of Medicine at Allahabad attributed the disappear-y from England to the countryside campaign launched some time ago. "We should now try to arouse similar interest throughout the Empire," he said.—Reuter.
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