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Interrogatory W. 4.

Lepra

seems to be almost

333

exclusively confined to the tuule

Sex.

As Medical Officer to the West ._ India Emigration Depot in this

Island

during

the last two.

years

گ

have examined Thinken Thousand

Chinese, eleven thousand takes and twe

thousand females almost in

state of

unudity and

on

reference to:

notes I

my

fired only five Chinese (Mnks) presented the appearance of the disease: described by

une.