Victims Carry on With a Cheerful Countenance and a Prayerful Heart
Leprosy Can Be Cured
By PENNY WISE
(PART II) TTONG KONG—Fortunately I have a -H strong stomach. Otherwise, merely looking at the pictures of the ravages of leprosy can make into the human body, would have cancelled out the pleasure of the cup of tea we were treated to in the cool, rambling, brick house on the peak of the sun-baked hill a few hundred yards above the carpentry shops of the mild lepers.
S. Hanford, development officer of the establishment, with the co-operation of a bright-eyed Chinese doctor who operates on lepers about three times a week at the leprosarium, showed us the pictures and explained what happens to humans once this most dreaded of all diseases get into the blood.
Then after showing: us the pictures, he and Mrs. Hanford guided us into the hospital wards themselves ― a mile or so off in the jungle-like hills. One by one they took us around the patients showed us their sickness (when they weren't bandaged from recent opera-
tions) and outlined the treatment given, currently being received, to be given, and the results which might be expected.
It was not pleasant; it wasn't supposed to be pleasant. But it was thrilling, it was exciting, and most of all it was heart-warming in the extreme.
And it was plain to see why pathetic little cries of "angel" in Chinese followed the figure of Irene Hanford as she went from bed to bed, massaging leprous hand or foot with her bare hands; pulling up a trouser leg to show an ulcer, baring a chest to show scars left by the disease, indicating a nose that had started to disappear before treatment put an end to the ravages.
You could not be disgusted by what you saw, I don't care how squeamish. There was pity and incredulity, but these feelings were always followed by wonderment and admiration at the work done for 540. And by the wish that the money might be made available to tackle the estimated 5,000 more Hong Kong Chinese who are in hiding
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CHINATOWN NEWS, APRIL 18, 1960
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