Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Leprosy in the West Indies. [ARTICLE]

Leprosy in the West Indies.

Lepers are very plentiful in Jamaica, and they mix with the people without let or hindrance, plying all manner of trades and vocations, even to selling fruit and cakes on the public street, and keeping butcher shops and bakeries. The Governmant has provided a leper hospital at Spanish Town, which ordinarily shelters a hundred or more lepers. But there is no restriction, on their coming and going as they please. Leprosy is fearfully rife throughout the West Indies and in many parts of Central and South America, and the authorities in almost all the various countries are lax in the exercise of control over the sufferers from the disease, and it is allowed to be spread unhindered.