Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-11
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6KNNTIyE UNHoRrUNATES.
The patients are peculiarly sensitive.
We were warned against using the
word lepfosy within their hearing. They
sneak of it as the disease" Each pa
tient, apparently, has an impression
that there may b some mistake in
his cas-, and that be is suffering from
some Othar complaint. At times medi-
cine ID given to relieve them from pain.
Any unusual decocti0n seems to affect
them. Cases have occurred where those
amicted With leproey left the country
Two or three years ago the spots ap-
we'll known families. Determined 10
avoid the laxarette, the girls went to
Shediac, and were employed a. house
Ff. Babineau wrote to Shediao. He
had observed indications Of leprosy on
them before their disappearance. The
dence, Il. l. One died in that city in q
gaked "a a ohambermaid. FIR. Rabi-
mean learned the whereabouts Of the
survivor, and went to Providence. A.
wa q G<4ASS S0AA o0 OAS4v AxOG1 00I tk16b II
was her duty to return to Tracadie and
enter the lazaretto. She did 60, and
died within year.
DISTRESSING CASES.
The good father relates the partiou.
lara of a case of leprosy in a man two
years married. There was the usual
fOferunner of the disease. The father
visited the mans residence and talked
with his wife about it. The husband
insisted that IL was not leprOsy. His
wife conceded with him, but expressed
difference of opinion to the priest in
private. Satisfied, however, that the
husbsnd was tainted; the wife left him.
He remained in the house alone. Not
long afterward, seeing the priest ap-
preaching, he took to the woods. Father
RAbineeu overlook him and remOn-
strated with him. The man was Obsti-
nate. He was threatened with the riRor
of the Law. The conversation lasted
two or three hours, and the husband
was finally induced to enter the lazar-
ett0. Not long ago tho disease broke
out on the body Of Q fisherman Who for
twenty years had lived alone in q hut
ON tho Bay Of Tracadie. When the
priest asked him to enter tho lazarett0
his only objection was fear that he
might become lonesome. He is now in
hospital, pininR for the oompanionship
OF nature. A more distressing case 90
CURED two months ago. The death spots
appeared on the mother of four little
children. The priest repeatedly talked
with her. and she was finally induced to
part with her husband and enter the
living tomb. Her parting with her chill
dren Was very affecting, and to this day
the fathers ears hear the cries Of
Mamma, mammav' The family is $50
lated. The children have no playmates,
and the neighbors shun the place a.
though it was q nest Of pestilence.
n THE DBRAsE CONTAGIOUS?
Ths disease is said to be contagious,
bat We could learn of no we'll authenti-
Gated instancsi Of contagion. None Of
the Sisters have shown the least symp-
toms Of ieprosy, although two have
waited on tho patients for fourteen
tions against it. The native families Of
French deaesut seem 10 Re satisfied that
il il COntaQious. Tho victims Of the dis
ease are al. first visited by their near
relatives, but, a. the seasons roll ON, the
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