01453nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001260003600042653001600078653002300094653001200117653002500129245007200154300000800226490000800234520105300242       2011                            d  bAmerican Medical Assn.aChicago10aSegregation10aNeglected Diseases10aleprosy10aSociological aspects00aThe Sociological Aspects of Leprosy and the Question of Segregation  a5360 v1473 aSince this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. 
 
THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES 
VOL. XXIX 
MAY, 1911 
NO. 5 

By ISADORE DYER, PH.B., M.D., New Orleans.Dean and Professor of Diseases of the Skin, Medical Department, The Tulane University of Louisiana. 

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There should be a national provision made for the disease, under such conditions as would offer an asylum to all lepers, with the hope of intelligent treatment so as to provide for the possibilities of cure. 

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The very possibility of such occurrences as the scandalizing publicity in the Early case and in the criminal inhumanity in the West Virginia case of the Syrian, who died of chagrin and neglect, should argue supremely for segregation, but. under humane provisions, regulated by intelligent administration. 

J Cutan Dis. 1911;29(5):268-273. 

Editor's Comment

The good news: Dr W. W. Golden of Elkins, West Virginia, was able to give the young man a name . . .