Word: lepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii's leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers...
...Within the past year Father d'Orgueval has been visited by Father Joseph A. Sweeney of the Maryknoll Fathers in Ossining, N. Y. Last week it was learned, by letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons, "We lepers." There is little chance for his recovery. Father Sweeney felt sure that Father d'Orgueval exposed himself by moving freely among the lepers to make them feel less outcast. Father Sweeney set out last week to found in South China a leper colony to be maintained by U. S. Catholics...
...father was or what was wrong with her, but at 13 she had begun to worry. When Falconer arrived in England Judy was whisked off to a farm in the country, where she was made the slavey of an ill-natured old nurse who treated her like a moral leper. When one night in a fit of rage the nurse explained to Judy what a bastard was, told her she was it, Judy was horrified, ran away. When they finally found her, unco guidness and her own adolescent fears had almost addled her little pate; it took all of Hilary...
...inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ulcerates the entire earth;* 2) myriads of lepers are segregated (12,000 in the Philippines) ; 3) 2,000,000-3,000,000 cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young...
...declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants of a segregated leper islet off Bantayan...