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lOO APPENDIX. twenty-five per cent. In the North American Continent we already find cases of the disease in (Greenland, in New Brunswick and in British Columbia; and, in the United States,in Minnesota, AVisconsin, Michigan, Oregon, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Florida, and, as before noted, in California. We are warranted, therefore, in the assertion that leprosy is cosmopolitan. No pent-up Utica confines its powers. It makes naught of latitudes or of altitudes. It spares no age and respects no race. The Anglo-Saxon the Teuton, the Sclav, are susceptible to its contagion, as well as the Hindoo and the Sandwich Islander. Witness Father Damien, so long the show-card of the non-contagion-ists, now lying in a martyr's grave under the frowning shadow of Molokai. Let us not take refuge in a fancied immunity due to climate or parentage. They will prove but broken reeds to pierce us as we lean upon them. We have, as has been show^i, leprosy to north of us, leprosy to south of us, leprosy to east of us, leprosy to west of us. We have even a few centers of infection wdthin our borders. These, how^ever, are as yet insignificant. If proper precautions are taken, thev will cease to exist in the course of a / K/ generation. In view of the situation, what is the part of wisdom ? Two courses are open to us. First, the do-nothing policy, which has prevailed until nearly the present time. The result of this will be that, in fifty years, there will be lepers in every hamlet, and leper-houses, crowded with their mutilated victims, in every city. Second, the policy of absolute and implacable segregation in the case of those who are already fairly domiciled in the country, the prohibition of marriage to all lepers, and the prohibition to all uninfected persons of the inhabiting of infected houses; and, with regard to foreign lepers, the policy of absolute and implacable exclusion. With the adoption of these measures, which, undertaken at this time, will entail very little hardship and wiW not be difhcult of execution, there are those now living who will see the day when there shall not be a leper in the
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
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Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
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Date | 1889-1890 |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
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Full Text | lOO APPENDIX. twenty-five per cent. In the North American Continent we already find cases of the disease in (Greenland, in New Brunswick and in British Columbia; and, in the United States,in Minnesota, AVisconsin, Michigan, Oregon, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Florida, and, as before noted, in California. We are warranted, therefore, in the assertion that leprosy is cosmopolitan. No pent-up Utica confines its powers. It makes naught of latitudes or of altitudes. It spares no age and respects no race. The Anglo-Saxon the Teuton, the Sclav, are susceptible to its contagion, as well as the Hindoo and the Sandwich Islander. Witness Father Damien, so long the show-card of the non-contagion-ists, now lying in a martyr's grave under the frowning shadow of Molokai. Let us not take refuge in a fancied immunity due to climate or parentage. They will prove but broken reeds to pierce us as we lean upon them. We have, as has been show^i, leprosy to north of us, leprosy to south of us, leprosy to east of us, leprosy to west of us. We have even a few centers of infection wdthin our borders. These, how^ever, are as yet insignificant. If proper precautions are taken, thev will cease to exist in the course of a / K/ generation. In view of the situation, what is the part of wisdom ? Two courses are open to us. First, the do-nothing policy, which has prevailed until nearly the present time. The result of this will be that, in fifty years, there will be lepers in every hamlet, and leper-houses, crowded with their mutilated victims, in every city. Second, the policy of absolute and implacable segregation in the case of those who are already fairly domiciled in the country, the prohibition of marriage to all lepers, and the prohibition to all uninfected persons of the inhabiting of infected houses; and, with regard to foreign lepers, the policy of absolute and implacable exclusion. With the adoption of these measures, which, undertaken at this time, will entail very little hardship and wiW not be difhcult of execution, there are those now living who will see the day when there shall not be a leper in the |
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Article Title | Leprosy in the United States |
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