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1960 - Leprosy is still a scourge in the East: Indonesia makes reports to control it by opening Leprosariums: Almost entirely unknown today in thestern world, the scourge of Leprosy is today still a frightening one in the East. Indonesia is one if the territories where it is. although in old Javanese literature it is not mentioned. It is thought to have originated there from a group ofalinese lepers who contracted it from Chinese traders. The Government have set up a number of Leprosaria, and operates a training scheme for the lepers. Publicity tries to encourage suffers to enter the Leprosaria, and to educate the people in how to recognise the disease, and of the importance of seetation. In the Leprosaria the patients get food, tion and medical treatment, although cures the disease reaches the secondary and tertiary stages are impossible. Photo shows the Lepers atima Leprosarium, one of the largest ones operated by the Indonesian authorities.A father in an advanced stage of Leprosy drinks tea provided by the garden's wife in the Leprosarium where he lives with his Leper wife and Leper children

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