Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — LEPERS DECLARED CURED [ARTICLE]

LEPERS DECLARED CURED

Ten of Eleven Persons Taken From Settlement Are Given Liberty. Honolulu, June 4/ —After some had spent twenty years in the leper settlement, ten of eleven supposed lepers who wore re-examined have been de declared free of the disease. Of there two are boys of six and seven years, but the others vary in age from twenty-seven to seventy-nine. Probably some of the older patients will petition to be returned to the settlement, as they have been shut off from the world and their friends so long they have no place else to go.