Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1890 — The Spread of Leprosy. [ARTICLE]

The Spread of Leprosy.

According to Dr. Morrell Mackenzie, leprosy, the scourge of the Middle Ages, has not become practically extinct among Europeans, but is really spreading. It has between ten and twelve hundred victims in Norway, is found also in Portugal, Greece and Italy, and is rapidly spreading in Sicilly, in the Baltic provinces of Russia and in France, while the British Islands are not exempt from It In the United States cases have been found in California, in some of the Stales of the Northwest, in Utah and Louisiana. Many coses exist in New Bruns we \ In the Sandwich Islands the disease first broke out in 1868, and there are now 1.100 lexers in the Molokai settlement alone. : The dismm U «st sding lo the Vt est Indies.