Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . Four Leprous Women them shelter, bread and water, and theygo out and beg for gratuities, to makeup the balance of their living. They arefound at the gates, and especially at thecrossing of the Valley of group was taken at Zions Gate,and you will notice in this instance thatthe hands are gone off several of these. 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
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . Four Leprous Women them shelter, bread and water, and theygo out and beg for gratuities, to makeup the balance of their living. They arefound at the gates, and especially at thecrossing of the Valley of group was taken at Zions Gate,and you will notice in this instance thatthe hands are gone off several of these. 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
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