Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1912 — Lepers in Revolt. [ARTICLE]

Lepers in Revolt.

Japan Is having a great many strikes Just now, but perhaps the strangest Is that of the lepers at Kameyama hospital, Toklo. The hospital was founded and Is conducted by a society of French monks, and . contains about three hundred leper patients. The costs of the establishment are paid by voluntary subscriptions and for the sale of the produce of the hospital garden and handiwork of the patients. The latter receive no payment for their services, beyond their board, lodging and medical attendance and a small sum for pocket money, which is calculated at the rate of a farthing a day. Recently the lepers demanded an Increase in their pocket money allowance to a half-penny a day, and on the refusal of the father superintendent they work, and over a hundred escaped from the hospital by night by climbing cfegr the wall. They were subsequently recaptured by the local police and recondacted to the cate of the monks.