The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-11-29
Ne MUST
co BACK
Geo. Pratt Declared a
Leper by Doctors.
IS NOW IN QUARANTINE
Attempt Of San Francisco to Force
Its Diseased on Hawaii
Blocked.

THE man who was sent by the San
Francisco Board of Health to Ha-
wall is a leper. George Pratt, who
came here on the China and who
declared himself cured leper, was ex-
amined by the official examiners of the
Board of Health of Hawaii and was
declared a leper. He is not cured.
He is still a leper. The marks of the
disease are on his body, every sign
pointing to his condition, and accord
ing to his own confession, the most
striking and fearful stigmata Of the
disease show themselves now and
again upon him.
Pratt was taken yesterday from the
Kalihi receiving station to Quarantine
Island. He was turned over as agreed
by the Board of Health of Hawaii to
the Federal quarantine authorities. He
will be held here until the return of the
China from the Orient, when, if he is
willing, he will be sent back to San
Francisco. If he refuses to return of
his own volition he will either be fore
IDLY deported or a reply will be awaited
to communications sent to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury at Washington.
George Pratt, the leper, has proved
himself such picturesque liar since
his arrival here that it is difficult to
know what to believe of his statements
He tells one story to one man and an
other to the next. Though ignorant
and uneducated, he is cunning. When
he landed in Honolulu last Tuesday he
said first that he had come here to seek
admission to the Molokai LepSr Set
tlement and there to devote his life to
the cure of leprosy by certain medi-
cines which he said he had with him.
Again he has said that he came to
cure the case of one West, who is at
Molokai; that he intended to give his
medicines to doctors here; that he had
been sent here by the Board of Health
of San Francisco; that he had not been
sent by the Board of Health of San
Francisco; that he came from Louis
lana; that he came from San Francisco
The man has told so many conflicting
stories that all those who have talked
with him here have lost faith in his
Iutterances.
1t seems certain, however, that he
has been in San Francisco for about
1.-TWO years previous to coming here anC
that he was directed to come here by
the Board of Health of that city
Whether he was sent here to make 6
test of the possibilities of the genera
admission of Mainland lepers o.
whether his was merely a case of Sal
Francisco authorities seeking to rit
themselves of an Objectionable patien
has not been shown conclusively. Th,
Board of Health of Hawaii feels tina
Pratt has been brought into this coun
try through the omission-innocent, o
,course-of the Federal authorities ant
the board will look to the Federal au
thorities to send back Pratt to tn
state from whence he came
DR.. Carmichael feels as strongly dis
posed in this direction as do the Off
cials of Hawaii. He declares that h
will keep Pratt in seclusion until h
returns him to San Francisco, and tha
he will do everything possible to pre-
vent any further invasion of Hawai-
by lepers from the Mainland.
The people of Hawaii are aroused il
this matter. The business men an,
the residents who are not in busines
are determined that Hawaii shall no
be made the dumping ground for TIL
dlseased of America. 1t is understoo,
that the Chamber of Commerce an
other mercantile bodies here will adop
E resolutions endorsing the Board O
= Health's efforts and protesting agains
the evident intentions of the States to
ward Hawaii.