Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . At Zions Gate, Jerusalem. women. Then they have a tin pail set-ting in front of them, where the coinsare dropped in. At the colony they are permitted tomarry, but I am credibly informed thatwherever the husband is a leper, thereare no children born. In a period of tenyears, there has not been a single in-stance where a child has been born inthe colony to a leprous father. Butshould the mother only be a leper, it iscommon for children to be born, and thisis one of the ways in which the diseaseis perpetuated. So long as leprous peo-ple are permitted to marry, Je
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . At Zions Gate, Jerusalem. women. Then they have a tin pail set-ting in front of them, where the coinsare dropped in. At the colony they are permitted tomarry, but I am credibly informed thatwherever the husband is a leper, thereare no children born. In a period of tenyears, there has not been a single in-stance where a child has been born inthe colony to a leprous father. Butshould the mother only be a leper, it iscommon for children to be born, and thisis one of the ways in which the diseaseis perpetuated. So long as leprous peo-ple are permitted to marry, Jerusalemwill have a goodly number of lepers. The pictures herewith except one,were all taken at the leper hospital. Thesister who stands with these people, hasbeen in the hospital for sixteen and ahalf years. Her name is Sister ElizabethMiller. She is a German girl, speaksEnglish very well. In the course of con-versation she told me that in her sixteenand a half years of experience, she had. W. R. Miller and C. W. Guthrie in their Jerusalem home at work on articles for the Visitor. not known of one case where the dis-ease was contracted by contact with aleprous person. It is clearly evident thatthe disease is not so contagious as wesuppose in America. This is proven bythe indiscriminate handling of the lepersby this lady, for the period she has beenin the hospital. The only probable chance of contract-ing the disease would be by inoculation,and that would not always produceleprosy. The youngest case in the hospital is agirl about ten years of age. The case ofthe old man alone, is the worst in thehospital, and perhaps in Jerusalem. Thecamera has in no wise exaggerated hisappearance, but is every whit as bad, andeven worse than the picture shows. Inone of the women in the picture, eventhe balls of her eyes are gone, and allher finger ends have dropped off. Inphotographing the lepers they hesitate in having their hands and feet will be noticed in the picture, a num-
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