LEPROSY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., the well-known surgeon, who Ims just returned to Loudon from South Africa, where he has been studying thedifiuskm of leprosy, has found the disease sparingly scattered over the whole of South Africa, affecting chiefly the coloured races, hut also a small number of Dutch farmers. He considers the primary cause the use as of badly-cured salt lish, prepared at Cape Town and sent inland for consumption. He believes that the malady is not infectious or conta gious in the proper sense of these words, but that it may be communi cated by eating food contaminated by a leper's hands. Hence the disca c never spreads in leper asylums or I well-civilised communities. He recom | mends the legislative confral of the j fish-curing establishments, the diffus ing of information as the danger of i communication, and the establishment iof small isolation holm p s into which lepers should he induced to go during j Hie stage involving risk.
A REMARKABLE NEWSPAPER.
