Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)
1897 - LEPERS ON A TRAIN. Three Icelanders Sent to Be Immured in a Lazaretto for Life.

Three lepers, natives of Iceland, have arrived at the lazaretto, at Tracadie, Gloucester County, New Brunswick. The lepers were brought from Winnipeg, Manitoba, in a freight car, which was directly behind the locomotive and was placarded to warn the public to keep away from it.

The victims came into Canada through the port of Halifax or St. John, after having crossed the ocean in the steerage of a steamship. They were half way across the continent before the nature of their disease was suspected.

They were isolated at Winnipeg, where Dr. Smith, of the Tracadie (New Brunswick) lazaretto, who was sent by the Government to examine them, pronounced it leprosy, and the three afflicted persons, one of whom is a woman, were ordered to be immured in the lazaretto for the rest of their lives.

The Abbeville Press and Banner
Abbeville, South Carolina
May 19, 1897

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