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...inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ulcerates the entire earth;* 2) myriads of lepers are segregated (12,000 in the Philippines) ; 3) 2,000,000-3,000,000 cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young...
...Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants of a segregated leper islet off Bantayan...
Other leprosy news of last week: the opening of Leonard Wood Hospital at Cebu, Philippine Islands. Built of concrete and bamboo, it is a 26-building hospital big enough for 700 patients...
...Cebu, P. I., readers of Cebu's leading journal, Progress ("a daily of information") read a screaming headline: IGOT, MALE, IS PREGNANT. There followed an account...
...Balbino came to Cebu the other day to ask medical advice as to his sensational pregnancy. The physician confirmed Balbino's pregnancy and told the hermaphrodite that nothing could be done to remedy the situation...