A tribute has recently been paid in Pretoria to the
work of a very remarkable woman, Miss Whiteman, who has just completed twenty-five years' of service as matron of the Leper Asylum outside Pretoria. The Asylum has a staff of twenty white nurses and nearly nine hundred patients. Here is an Englishwoman who, without desire for self-advertisement, is doing a work worthy of Father Damien. I first met Miss Whiteman in South Africa before the War. After many years' absence from England she paid a visit here last year. I do not think she was really happy in London, as all the time she wanted to get back to her beloved lepers. " It is the most tragic thing in the world to be a leper," she said. " One of the things which the patients like best is to look like other people. When they have concert parties at the Leper hospital we rouge their faces and powder them."
TANTUM.
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