| Abstract: | ![]()
The problem to which I want to call your attention to-night isa vast one, how large no one knows for certain, but in South Chinaat least it is one of the major health problems. It is commonly estimat-ed that there are a million lepers in this country but it is as impossibleto know how many suffer from this infection as from the kindred dis-ease of tuberculosis which in many ways it closely resembles. Especi-ally is this the case in its widespread incidence, its furtive onset, itsspecial attack on children and its liability to recurrence, as well as inthe close similiarity in the nature of the infective organisms. |
