A virtual state of panic reigned today in the Warsaw Jewish quarter, when it was revealed that a Jewish leprosy patient had escaped from the isolation hospital, and was at large.
A Jew, Eleazer Echhauser, who recently reurned from Palestine, went to a clinic complaining of “eczema”. Doctors diagnosed the case as leprosy and placed him in an isolation hospital, but he escaped.
Despite the announcement of medical men that leprosy is not contagious in Poland because of the climate, the Jewish section was in a tumult of worry.
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