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We have received from the Mission to Lepers, at 33

Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, a Report of a Conference on the leper problem in India, held at Calcutta in February last. The problem is a serious one, as in 1911 there were 109,000 lepers in India, and there are now said to be 150,000. The Conference urged that, as the disease is contagious, the lepers should be segregated voluntarily in settlements, as in the Philippines and Norway. Sir Leonard Rogers described his new method of treatment, with the salts of fatty acids, which has yielded encouraging results in a number of cases. The Conference recommended that the International Health Commission should ho asked to assist further research into this method which has at least shown that leprosy is not incurable.