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IN our issue of October 20, p. 591, we published an article on the leprosy problem, describing the recent improvements in the treatment of the disease, and announcing the formation of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, with the direct object of applying the new knowledge to the difficult task of oreducing, and eventually eradicating, leprosy from our possessions. A public appeal was made at the Mansion House on January 31 for 250,000?. for the campaign, and further information was then given regarding the proposed lines of work. Additional favourable reports of the new treatment have been received, among which is a trial in 4067 cases under American physicians at the Cullion Leper settlement of the Philippines., with great improvement in 74 per cent, of the cases treated for from six to nine months and no less than 93 per cent, after twelve to fifteen months' treatment, including a number in which all signs of the disease and its bacilli had disappeared, while in the Federated Malay States Dr. Travers has cleared up a sufficient number of lepers to furnish a complete staff for his institution.
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The British Empire Campaign against Leprosy. Nature 113, 185–186 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113185a0
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