Tahitian Lepers
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Rich American’s Care of Tahitian Lepers
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Dec. 8.
Mr. William B. Leeds, Of New
York, who is visiting Tahiti on board his yacht, “Moana”, has given a handsome sum to the leper station at Urufara.
When Mr. Leeds first visited the is land. about ten years ago. he became deeply interested in the leper colony. On his departure he arranged with the pro prietor of the local cinema theatre to exhibit, at regular and frequent inter vals, the latest pictures in the assembly hall of the leper station, and has pro vided funds for this service ever since.
It is reported that he is about to have installed in the assembly hall an appar atus for exhibiting talking pictures.
The leper station, unlike most of those in other island archipelagoes, is not situ ated on a separate island, but in a beau tiful valley in the district of Mahina on Tahiti itself. Though isolated, it is eas ily accessible for the relatives and friends of the patients.