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BALALA, THE UNINFECTED SECTION OF CULION

Here the doctors, nurses, and non-leprous employees live; and here also are the administrative offices of this

remarkable organization

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Concrete is used in the construction of practically all the buildings except the small nipa palm dwelling houses

should be a light occupation in which our lepers might be successful. On account of the fact that cattle do not contract leprosy, it would seem that the public would not object to the meat of such animals if it were placed upon the market.

At first it was hoped that the able-bodied lepers would be glad to perform such tasks as might be assigned to them, but it was soon found that even a leper who receives free board, lodging, hospital care, and clothing from the Government does not care to work for that Government without receiving compensation, notwithstanding that the labor is for his own benefit. There are many things to be done each day in Culion. The streets must be swept, the garbage cans emptied, assistance rendered in the hospital, and supplies carried. Each leper thinks it is the duty of the other to do the work, and so it goes in an endless circle. To meet this difficulty it seemed desirable to change artificial conditions of institutional life more nearly to resemble the conditions prevailing in ordinary communities. With this end in view, a store has now been started at which anything produced by a leper may be sold. There is also kept for sale a stock of such things as the lepers may wish to buy. This store is beginning to exert a very favorable influence. For example,

nearly a ton of fish is offered for sale by the lepers every day. Milk from the goats and special vegetables may now be obtained for the sick. In connection with the store there is a post office, with a leper postmaster in charge. All outgoing mail is disinfected. When it is ready, a non-leprous employee collects it and places it aboard the mail steamer.

A special currency has been coined for the exclusive use of the lepers. The denominations are the same as those of the regular Philippine currency. If a leper has occasion to send money out of the colony, he can purchase a regular money order from a non-leprous clerk, who mails it for him.

Briefly, then, the United States has established the world's largest leper colony. In the course of a few years the feat of gathering up more than 8,000 lepers has been accomplished without creating any serious disturbance. The treatment for leprosy has been greatly advanced. The lepers themselves, instead of being shunned, often wanting for food, and driven from pillar to post, now have a comfortable home where they are welcome. And finally, due to the decreasing number of new cases, hundreds of unfortunates who were formerly doomed each year to contract this most loathsome disease are now saved from this horror.

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BRIDGEPORT, CONN., AN EXAMPLE OF THE EFFECTS OF WAR ORDERS ON THE UNITED STATES-POSSIBLE PERMANENT RESULTS OF THE WAR BOOM

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SAFEGUARDS AGAINST CRANKS AND SPIES Nobody can get into or out of any of the buildings of the Remington Arms Company or the Union Metallic Cartridge Company at Bridgeport without showing a pass to an armed guard

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The site of the new plant of the Remington Arms Company at Bridgeport when the grounds were being cleared for the erection of buildings in which to manufacture

weapons for the Intente Allies

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