The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-03
THE LEPER MOVES
GEIRGE ROssETT TAKEN SECRET
 LY FROM PARKERsBUURG.
New York Health Omcers Say They no Not Fear syrian and Dread Dis-
 ease Is Not Contagious.

Parkersburg, w. Va, August a. George Rossett, the Syrian 1eper, who has been an uninvfted guest in this city since Tuesday afternoon. was last night smuggled away in special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with place of abode.
 Rossett's deportation was arranged with secrecy and it was not generally known that he had left the town. Rus- sett's removal was by order of Cover nor w. R. Dawson. On a grassy plot at the rear of the Baltimore and Ohio tation,, with ropes stretched about to keep back the people, Rossett spent his time while here sleeping and talk ing with those who ventured near enough to him.
 He did not seem to mind the circum- stances in connection with his trip to this city and claimed the ParkcrsburS people gave him better treatment than he received elsewhere. The district at torney's offlce sent a telegram to Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury, asking that the state take charge of Rossett, and have him removed to North Brothers Island. N. T.. but no answer was received.
 A box car sidetracked Tuesday night. near where the leper took up his quar- ters and he refused to take it, pre- AEAItuE AuS open dlE. ETpIu then uHtii he left this city. he camped on the unsheitered ground. without a bed of any kind.
 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad oficiaIs say that Rossett ate heartily and de- spite the fact that he had been shun- ned and neglected. he had an abund- ance of food. The railroad officials and the Maryland physician, who were charged with bringing Rosseft here 1k AnyA %<. tonight, and all three will appear. hav- ing given bonds. The railroad com pany contends that was not respon- stble for Rossett's visit here
 New York. August 2.--Nsw York has no bars up against the parish of West the leper who has been driven out. summed, side tracked, forbidden to cross New Jersey. and kept a prisoner in freight car with no regular sup- ply of food or water.
 Dr. Doty, quarantine officer, after meeting yesterday of the New York Board of Health. said
 As the two medical members of the Board of Health. Dr. Darlington and I, are agreed that in New York 1eprosy is not a factor In state sanitation, we don't consider it at all further than to hold that in this country 1t is not a menace to the public. No. there is no prohibition against this poor outcast coming to New York.
 T think 1t most inhuman the way this man has been treated" declared Dr. Doty.
 "In what I say. I speak also for Commissioner Darlington. What this leper wanted to do, probably, was to get to New York. where there is large colony of his people. the Syrians. his hope being that his countrymen would h-ip him to be transported to hts home. There is something wrong about his wanting to reach North Brothers IK- land. No lepers are there
 Tn New York ieprosy is no factor. Leprosy is one of those disorders med icai science knows very little about Dealing with facts, as we do, and not with theories. we have learned that though leprosy occurs in parts of the United States, there are no reported in- stances of one case having caused oth- CTS There is a popular fear of it. But the facts, as they have been observed do not warrant the fear.
 Tuberculosis is more communicable Vet we have no sentiment behind a movement to segregate consumptives" E.A man who had been a nurse in the E 9artment of 1indandoa, Philippines Ii nd. offered Yesterday, his services as Attendant V Jon the afflicted Rosset ThA nurse is W. H. Trantham. of No. PAT West Eighteenth Street
 T have worked in hospitals where there were hundreds of lepers," he said. land it is my belief that the chan ces of contagion by an American are very remote.@