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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-08
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any question whatever, Ieper colonies
of Scandinavian birth and descent.
This fact was substsntiated by Dr.
BrocknaHn, who estimated that there
must be in Minnesota alone 100. 900
persons-of Norwegian descent-of lep-
rous ancestors" DR.. Hansen, who dis
covered the bacillus of leprosy in 1874,
and who made q tour of investigation
in the sections of the United States
just named. corroborates DR.. Brock
mann's position. Immigrants from
southern Russia have, it Is claimed,
also been the means Of spreading tho
contagion in some Of our western
states, as well as in cities on the At
lantic sea aboard This is an important
fact, and should not be overlooked in
view Of Sir Morell Mckenzie's state
ment that ''leprosy is spreading to an
alarming degree in Russia, and in al
most every other quarter of the globe
it is extending its ravages."
Mulhall, the celebrated statistician,
asserts that there are a considerable
number Of lepers in both Spain and
Italy. 1t is possible, therefore, that
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land, Japan, Madagascar, Siam and
Borneo, in all of which countries lep-
rosy is said to be making great head
way.
This development Of the disease In
Hawaii can be traced from its genesis
IN 1850. To-day 1900 Of the worst cases
have been herded together in the leper
settlement OF Moiokai, which has
proved conclusively the contagiousness
of the disease. The most notable case
on record in this connection is that Of
the humanitarian, Father Damien de-
Veuster, who, in 1878, left his cure in
Hawaii to giveu his life for the unfor-
Inmates kept apart from the rest of the
world at Molokai. When he frst took
upon himself this act of self-Sacriice,
and to which he died martyr, he was
robust, healthy man Three years
later he developed incipient tubercular
leprosy. the most horrible and virulen.
phase Of the disease. Within ten years
he was corpse.
1t is not improbable that before
many years have gone by the entire
native population OF the Sandwich
islands will have succumbed to this
malignant destroyer, whose ravages
there exhibit an object lesson of which
the people OF the United States should
take heed 1t is more likely than not,
however. it will work itself out on this
continent in a far different manner
from what it did in Europe, where, al
though first observed in Italy in the
second century. it did not become gen
eral until the eighth century, and al
most epidemic in the twelfth, declining
in the fifteenth and becoming practical
ly extinct in the seventeenth, to once
more assert itself again in the middle
of the present century. Since that
time it has attacked races long free
from IT, working its course more partic-
ularly in strong, healthy and virile peo-
pie. like the Scsndinavians.
The fallacy Dramatically promul.
gated in 1867 by the Royal College Of
Physicians and Surgeons Of Great Brit
ain and Ireland that leprosy was not
contagious has been shown to be abso-
lutely false by DR.. Hansen's discovery
Of the lepric bacilli in 1874. This is
slender rodlike parasite half to three
quarters of the diameter of . human
blood corpuscle and one-ffth Of its
length. The British dogma of the nom
contagiousness of leprosy Is no longer
needed by Americans and other der
matologists But many Of the physi-
clans and authorities In the British
possessions still hold to the position
taken twenty-eight years ago by the
highest British medical authority, and
the consequence Is that our best au-
thorities have to regard immigrants
and products from all the colonial DOS
sessions Of great Britain with the most
terrible dread.
In addition to the case of Father
Damien as al evidence of the In.
fictitious character of leprosy. there are
also instanced the cases of numerous
sisters of charity and physicians who
have devoted their lives to the care Of
lepers, thereby sacrificing themselves
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Going TO California

STOP of al Las Vegas. Hot Springs
and Grand Canon OF the Colorado river.
The first named u a most delightful
resort IN the Rocky mountains % Ssw
Mexico. with mineral waters. hos
baths. insiEorat!Dg climate and varied
scenery After June 20 the splendid
Hontezurna Hotel. rsfitted and under
new management. viii luxgr!ogzly cara
for you
TIE Grand Canon - reached by =
haif-Gzy'E stage ride from railroad STA
ton al FlaRxtan. Arizona The trip
g. comfortably made at uosdera;s cost
Everything you have seen dwarfE In
comparison with thls Titan cf chaznz-
Niagara would he swallowed up Sc 10.
and Fixes Peak appez- insixniscsnt
Il placed IN the Capon'z dark dspihs-
For illustrated ho-oks descriptive %
either place. isqgire az nearest agent
santa Pc Route. or zfdrs~z q 7. Slch-
olson. g. =. a. Ioszdoock ia. Cai-
caE9.
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DO You Know.

That the Santa Fe route Isl. Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita to 3
Louis, without change. leaving Wichi-
Ia a l0:io 4. m, and 1885 y. m. arriy-
ing in 81. Louis a $50 D. m. ana so a
m. The equipment Of these trains is
first class in every particular. consist
ing OF elegant reclining chaircavs 6saafs
free) and Pullman Palace Drawing
Room Sleepers.
II you are going beyond St. Louis re-
member that connection with all lines
for the east. northeast and southeast i
made in the magnificent new Grand
Union depot, St Louis. the largest and
handsomeSt passenger station in the
world.
For sleeping car berths and all infor-
nation relative 10 rates, routes. etc
call at Santa Fe Route ticket Office is
North Main street. or Douglas Avenue
eta ton. d5s #
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Tor the love or humanity, religion On
science. The best known American ex-
ample of this is that of Father BoGholi,
who died OF leprosy contracted by him
at the Charity hospital in New Or
leans while administering the sacra-
ment of extreme JUNCTION to two lepera.
Medical science seems to be united
now in the belief that leprosy Il not
hereditarily transmissible and d.. Pit
kin, as an evidence of this, called my
attention to the fact that IL was so
recognized in the notable instance Of
the foundation of the Kapiolani homo
at Honolulu for the nonleprous chill
dren of lepers. 1t has also been dis.
covered that women are less liable to
the disease than men; thus, for in.
stance, there are 1900 male lepers in
the East Indies to $4,000 femalea Al
though incurable in individual cases
brought on by want of cleanliness OK.
posure to cold or damp and the use Of
semi-putrid fish and meat and rancid
oil, yet hygienio and proper sanitary
conditions appear 70 have destroyed il
in certain communities
But II is erretic In its methods. as
shown In the fact that the incubation
of the disease may 60 on unrecognized
from three to twenty years or moro.
Cases are cited Of persons having re-
sided in the Sandwich islands, British
Guiana, the United States of Colombia,
New Caledonia and elsewhere who.
although they unknowingly contracted
the disease there, it did not manifest
itself for long years afterward.
Tubercular leprosy. DR.. Pitlin ex-
planned to me, begins in a different
manner from that mider type Of tho
disease, anesthetic or painless leprosy.
1t commences By exhibiting small spots
where the lepric. parasitic bacilli have
made LESSONS or entrance into the flesh.
Then tubercles develop, unite with
others and give TO the features a cor
rugated or fCrrowed appearance. or
sometimes that Of nodular prominences
egg-shaped in character The cheeks
become tumifed, the lips swollen, the
nose thickened, broadened and crushed
in appearance, and the ears pro:uber-
ant with thin lobes fabbly hanging
down The eyebrows and eyelashes
disappear and other frightful changes
take place, until in this the first stage
OF tubereular leprosy the physiognony
IS altered into one hideous mass Of dis
fguration and Is no longer the human
face divine
The Lucrative stage next folio vs.
The tubercles soften and break up into
ulcers. discha-ging yellowish fluid
Although these vsev IN strength. they
finally gangrene, destroy the Tissues
and lay bare the sine--s and bones
Then the glands in the groin, neck
and elsewhere swell and become pain
tuL Other horrors. such as blindness.
follow, ret the pstseu, mag live for
years 9th his body gradually and
slowly deeonposing. He Is actually .
living death Vet uakilled by -be
leprosy itself, some other disease. such
ss dyscntery or dropsy. VIII interviews
and release him from tor.u-e> seocni
Only 20 tae worst Of thee described "A
ESS;es Inferno. G. SocylxkX.
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some at least of the lepers in this
country to-day have come TO US with
the enormous Italian immigration that
has been Of late years such marked
feature OF our civilization. We have
also had . not inconsiderable number
of Greeks making a home in the new
world. Leprosy is not uncommon both
on the continent of Greece and in the
island Of the archipelago. Cyprus, Null.
hall points out. has a somewhat famous
leper farm. which was established in
$780, one mile from Nicosia-
But of al foreign countries from
which the dreaded disease has been
brought to our shores, the worst is
China. The immigrants from there
have penetrated every city in the land,
carrying along with them the leprous
germs, which through laundries and
cigar factories. where they have been
employed, have distributed the seeds Of
the disease By wholesale Statistics
gathered By the state Of California have
shown that the disease mas been eS-ab-
lished On firm footing there. and that
IL is distinctly attributable 70 Mongo-
liam lepers, some OF whom. discovered
in New York. were Quarsnt;ned on
North Brother island, where they Sill
remain
Mormon converts brought the disease
from the Sandwich islands TO Salt Lake
City, and Utah stands a very good
chance, unless proper precautions are
taken. Of being a second Hawaii since
from 70 10 per cent OF the population
are afflicted with lep-osy, not counting
those tainted with it, who. medical an
thorities say, viii bring the acreage up
% from 80 10 Cd per cent OK the inhah-
fants- Such also NAV De the fate of
British Guiana Australia Ssv ZAas
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large, notwithstanding he had taken
measures toprevent them from engag-;
ing in the preparation Of goldfish" still
the facts remain.
After giving statistics relative to the
Tracadie lazaretto, he asserts that no
radical cure of the disease has yet been
discovered, though, as with us, pal
iatives are used for meeting emergen-
cies, allaying pain and mitigating suf-
fering. thus making.life more bearable.
The new japanese tGOto) treatment of
lepers, which has been brought to the
notice Of the medical world, has been
given a fair trial in the Hawaiian leper
settlement, but with negative result.
Leprosy is a disease the bacillus Of
which has been identified. The con-
census Of opinion is now against the
theory of hereditary Transmission. The
disease here, as elsewhere, attaches
most TO people lowest In the scale Of
intelligence, and tho comforts of life,
and who live under conditions which
favor contagion. Contrary conditions
are attended with proportionate ex-
iemption from the disease"
DR.. Pitkin insists that not a railway
train should be admitted from Canada.
or ship from that country to any part
of our territory, either on the Canadian
border or to our ports on the great
lakes, without rigid search being
made for possible cases of leprosy.
The disease is also spreading in our
northwestern states through immigra-
ton from the Scandinavian countries
of Europe. Norway is the most i'm
portant Euro ean center OF leprosy.
where, in 1854. the leper population
amounted to nearly 1900. Minnesota,
Iowa and Wisconsin have. without
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TRAINS.
CONNECTIONS.

No 1-ConnectS at Burton, Kan, with
a. T. & S. F. for points in Kan
sas. Has reclining chair cars
(seats free), and Pullman drawing
room sleeper to Burton, Kan
No. 2-Connects at Monett for points in
Arkansas, also for points in In
dian Territory via Neosho. Con-
meets at Monet with the Texas
Limited (vestibule) which has re-
Ginning chair cars Seats free.
and Pullman Buffet drawing
room sleepers through to Calves
ton, via Paris and Dallas without
change. Connects at Grand Union,
st. Louis. with all lines for the
East, North and Southeast. Has
reclining chair cars Seats free
and Pullman drawing room sleep
er to ST. Louis.
No. 3.-Connects at Burton, Kan. with
A: T. & S. F. for points in Color
ado. Wyoming, Uxsh, Nevada.
Idaho. Montana, Oregon, Wash
ington, New and Old Mexico. Ari-
iona and California. Has re-
Ginning chair cars (seats free TO
Burton, Kan, Pullman drawing
room sleeper to Burton, Kan
Through Pullman sleepers. Burr
ton, Kan, to Pueblo, Denver, Ell
Paso, Los Angeles, San Diego and
San Francisco.
No. 4-Connects at Monett for points in
Arkansas and Texas. Has re-
clining chair cars (seats free and
Pullman Buffet drawing room
sleeper, Monett to Dallas, Tex,
via Paris. Connects a: st. Louis
Grand Union Station with all lines
for the East. North and South
east. Has reclining chair cars
tseats free and Pullman drawing
room sleepers to ST. Louis.
Through tickets on sale to all
points.
For further informa ton call upon
or address, TAGG & CARNEY,
City Ticket Agents.
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TO CHICAGO BY DAYLIGHT

The Santa Fe has put on a swift train
leaving Kansas City in the morning
and reaching Chicago the same evening.
1t makes the run in about fifteen hours
equaling the fast service of the night
flyers.
Free chair cars and Pullman sleepers
veStibuled throughout. Dining cars
serve dinner and supper. guests only
paying for what is ordered. The chair
ears are easy 20 ride in. an important
consideration for a sunrise to sunset
journey.
Close connections at Kansas City with
morning trains of all lines from the
west
If you prefer to leave Kansas City
In the evening. the Santa Fe offers
choice Of two limited trains.
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A Trip tn Colorado

Can be made cheapiy this summer bT
taking advantage % TIE Low rate o..
one fare plus > % for the round tip.
offered ~ The Great Rock Island
Route for the National H.ducafs0aal
meeting az Denver. Tickets All - o..
sale AZ all stations of the Great Kock
Island Route. Juiy {. :. and :. and
VII Be good returning Until September
Ist The very best - the Rock Island
Route train equipment. c1npr1zi nE
comfortable and free chair cars. iurgr-
!ous PuIlrnzns aad TIE finest dining
IN service for this occasion IN select
TIA; after ciose q t1e Denver ,ne-sirx
10 Colorado trip - complete without
visit % Colorado Springs. Pixies PEAK
and re Nanstou region. ard tat az
the Great Rock IsIsrs Route runs
solid trains of perfect essu!grnert IL
rsctiy east from Cosorazo springs.
your return trip caa - r1osi ere
di:lously aad comfortably made fr9ro
that point. without TIE necessity 20
returning - U~rnvs-. ~ having yossY
tickets read over the c. T. 4 & 4
Ry
Fo- f0H Information concerning Dc
tails q rates and tickets go lSc2i
aEeaL
beautiful souvenir -anef fhs
Tourist Tearsse-.'' desxEsux tbs sr-
cgrsson and giving valuable Informs
tsor ah0af mountain Fsee trlrs. All =
seat % zppl.eztios - letter = i7aA.zi
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as to the necessity Of immediate quar-
,antine restrictions being carried out.
One of these, DIR. Leonard T. Pitkin,
physician in chief. of the Institute Of
Dermatology and who was associated
years ago with the late Profs. ]. Mar
ion Sims and John T. Darby, informed
me short time ago that while he was
attending physician of the New York
dispensary and a member of the hos
pital staff at Wards and Blackwell's
islands case after case of leprosy
was brought to the notice of himself
and associates, proving oonclusively to
them that the lazaretto esta blished on
North Brother island, in Long Island
sound, had been brought into existence
not moment too soon.
Through the carelessness of tho
health authorities there has been al
lowed to come into existence at Key
West, in Florida, and New Orleans, in
Louisiana, two distinct AM large colo
MES of lepers, nearly ali of whom found
their way to this country from Cuba
and the British West Indian islands Of
Barbados, St Kits, ST. Lucia and
Jamaica, and these, like the rest of the
British colonies all over the world,
are positively reeking with leprosy.
Emigrants therefrom have not only
found their way through the southern
points named, but have also been per-
mitted to enter this country via the
port of New York, which is claimed to
have the most perfect system Of quar-
antine in the world. Health Commits.
sioner Emery, of Brooklyn, unearthed
recently several cases of colored lepers
who had come directly from Barbados,
and they had been permitted for the
last two years to commingle freely
with the people in the City of Churches,
until placed under municipal surveil-
lance DR.. Thomas Wiides, who was
the American consul for some years at
Kinston, Jamaica, insists that il has
been proved TO his satisfaction that
this frightfully infectious disease,
which he carefully studied while in the
West Indies, is rapidly spreading in
New York and other eastern and south
ern cities, and that cases which have
lately come under his notice have been
imported without any peradventure
from the British insular possessions in
the Caribbean sea
DY. Doty. health officer of the port Of
New York, thoroughly appreciates the
danger, and his mission to Havana, in
consultation with United States Med
teal Inspector Burgess, is not sirnply.
as announced, TO study the present
great mortality from yellow fever II
Cuba, but also to become more &C
qusinted there and al New Orleans,
which he viii inspect on his return,
with the ravages resultant from lep-
rosy. Il is strange Circumstance that
the disease, which was rife in Louisiana
over s century ago. and where there
was q very famous lazaretto. died ont
only 10 be resuscitated eighty years aft
onward by emigration from the West
Indies This. according TO Dr. Pitkin.
brings us 10 q very important question,
and that in the event of the annexation
of either Cuba or the Hawaiian islands,
where leprosy is most rife, one of the
consequences viii be naturally free
communication. without those customs
now existing II is also 20.
impossible that Newfoundland, New
brunswick and Nova Scotia. al OF
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The dimension Of the cylinders II Il1.
1871, and osH inches bore by 81 inch
stroke. These engines are of about 500
horse power. The boiler is Of the
Scotch marine type. 12 feet in diameter,
il6 feet long. and built for firing 1T both
ends The draft when fully equipped
will be seven feet.
revenue service and its sailing ground
will be IN the Chesapeake bay. and ia
stations Baltimore and Washington.
The cutters commander has not yet
been assigned. The crew will DO 6fty
all told.
In addition TO the engines II WIN 10
rugged with two masts and provided
with sails. The cutter Is expected to
make a speed of fifteen knots an hour.
The armament will consist of one g.
FOUNDER and two 1-pound yapid-fring
guns The small ARMS will consist Of
so new and improved Jorgcnsen rifles,
such as are furnished the navy, and an
equal number Of cutlssscs and revolt
vera The furnishings inside will be
polished cherry for the ward room and
solid mahogany for the cabin
The duties Of the Window arc to pro-
tect the revenue. assist vessels in dis
tress, suppress mutfnies, TO see that all
laws regarding commerce Ia the United
States arc properly obeycd, and render
other similar service. In time Of war
IL will cooperate with the navy. Tho
captain viii rank with licutensnt com
manders in the navy There are TWEEN
ty-three vessels Of this character hAv-
ing captain commanders Ia the services
eight with first lieutenant commanders
and Ave with junior ofhoer coauInAnA
dsrs-
The Window In the only one Of thcss
thirty-six vessels provided with Giple
expansion engines. although some are
now building which viii have quad
ripple expansion engines
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people in the United States A horri-
BILE, lingering living death, far more to
be feared than either yellow fever or
cholera, under which the individual
either quickly succumbs or is cured with
in a few days, is now face to face with
Americans in the incurable and loath-
some disease of leprosy. Unless stern
and determined measures are taken by
the national and state board Of health
to vigorously exclude leper suspects
from entering our Atlantic and Pacific
ports. as well as from the Mexican and
Canadian borders, we may within a
few years be placed in the position Of
India, which to-day has leper popula-
ton of close upon 132, 600, all of which
have been developed within the MEM
DRY Of living men. And if a close
scrutiny is not kept by our consuls in
foreign countries on the invoices Of
goods sent from places where lepers
abound the contagion may be spread
here to the same dimensions it was in
Europe in the twelfth century, when
there were no less than 10000 lazar.
houses on that continent and 1000 in
France alone.
The disease is now right here among
US. The eastern and southern states
have had the germs brought to them
direct from three sources-the West
Indies, Canada and southern Europes
the western states from China, north
ern Europe and Oceanics. The leprous
faint is gradually spreading in Louisi-
ana, Florida, Minnesota, Iowa, Wis
consin and California, and it is also to
be found il lesser degree in Texas,
Oregon, Utah, South Carolina and the
Empire state of New York. Prof.
Prince A. Morrow, NJ. D., Health Com
missioner DR.. Cyrus Edison and Chief
Inspector of Contagious Diseases, DE-.
Alvah II. Doty have not hesitated on
occasions to warn the people of tho
United States of the horrible peril now
hanging over the country. Our most
prominent dermatologists, who are in-
.timately acquainted with the facts, not
only through their theoretic scientific
knowledge, but their practical expert
snces with the disease, are all united
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Sealed Proposals.
City Clerks Office, Wichita, Kansas
q

City Clerks Office, Wichita, Kansas,
July S, 1895.
Sealed bids will be received AT this
office until ) O'Clock p. m. July 22d 1895.
for the construction Of the unfinished
permanent sidewalk on the west side
Of Main street between William street
and English street in accordance with
plans and specifications on file in Office
of the city engineer. Contractor must
state the price per square foot.
a certified check for the sum of ten
$4,000 dollars must accompany each
bid as a guarantee of good faith.
The mayor and council reserve the
right to reject any or all bids.
c. s. SMITH.
City Clerk