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Title: In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers ; including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, John, 1853-1917
Subjects: Leprosy -- India Missions -- India Missions to lepers
Publisher: London : Marshall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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epers and the LocalAuthorities. It originated in the Famine of 1897,which here, as elsewhere, drove many destitute lepersto seek relief. But, unlike their healthy kindred,they were still needy and helpless when the faminewas at an end, and the presence of 125 of them wasa difficult problem for the municipality. Thoughunable to assume the whole responsibility, the Missionmade a substantial grant which encouraged the localCommittee to go forward, with the result that apermanent Asylum has been provided, which isentirely under the management of the Society. That the Asylum supplies a real need will besufficiently apparent from the fact that the Raipur zilais said to be the most leprous district in the CentralProvinces. The Official Census Report for 1891gives the number of lepers in this one zila as 5,000.The number of inmates was doubled between March,1899, and December, 1900, and the last publishedreport of this Institution states that many applicationsfor admission have to be refused,
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CHAPTER VChandkuri (C.P.) FROM the railway at Bhatapara to Chandkuriwas my first experience of jungle travelling.Accompanied by the Rev. K. W. Nottrott onhis pony, I was carried in a dandy, or dhooly,by four coolies. Eleven miles of rough, scrubbyjungle, varied by occasional rice patches, brought usin sight of Chandkuri. Here a pleasant surpriseawaited me. A mile or so from the Leper Asylum,under a clump of trees by the wayside all the untaintedchildren of the lepers were drawn up in two rows—boys on one side and girls on the other—their red andwhite banners supplying a bright patch of colour to thescene. They received us with hymns well and brightlysung, and when Mr. Nottrott had interpreted my fewwords of greeting, they escorted us to the MissionStation. One quaint little lassie of three or four,after a little coaxing, trotted by the side of the dandyand held my hand, a privilege for which there weresoon several competitors. These clean, healthy, andevidently happy children w^er

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