"All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be."-Leviticus XIII. 46. One The Magistrate sat in his office, deep in thought. Before him, on his desk, lay a pile of documents of foolscap size-clinical reports as to some forty odd natives in the district, who had been cursed by God with the most bitter of all curses-the disease of leprosy. The Magistrate noted that the documents were livid white in colour-a variation from the ...
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"All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be."-Leviticus XIII. 46. One The Magistrate sat in his office, deep in thought. Before him, on his desk, lay a pile of documents of foolscap size-clinical reports as to some forty odd natives in the district, who had been cursed by God with the most bitter of all curses-the disease of leprosy. The Magistrate noted that the documents were livid white in colour-a variation from the orthodox blue of the ordinary printed form, and even this trivial circumstance seemed to have an unpleasant significance. It was a month since the receipt of the circular from the Government, directing that the long-dormant "Leprosy Repression Act" be put in force, and the District Surgeon had, in the interval, been busy riding from kraal to kraal in these locations where the disease existed, obtaining the voluminous data required in each individual case. This
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