1891 - LEPROSY DISAPPEARING. The Awful Disease Being Slowly But Surely Eradicated in New Brunswick.

OTTAWA, April 7. - The report of Dr. Smith, physician to the Tracadie lazaretto, shows that leprosy with which a few settlements of fishermen in New Brunswick has been afflicted for the past half centrury is being slowly but surely eradicated. The policy of segregation, which has now been pursued systematically under the supervision of the government for a number of years, has resulted in a lessening of the cases. At Tracadie, the original center of the disease, the cases seem to have been almost extirpated, and Dr. Smith expresses the belief that eventually the malady will disappear from all the communities where it has been the terror of the people. There are at present in the lazaretto eight males and ten females. Four new patients were admitted during the years, all from Caraquet, in Gloucester county, N.B. There were five deaths. The inexpressibly sad side of the matter is a paragraph in the report where Dr. Smith related that a girl at Tracadie is suspected of being infected with the awful disease, but so far her father, by murderous threats, has prevented anyone from examining the patient.