?Contagiousness of Leprosy. 293

NAME OF ASYLUM.
Condition on Admission.
Present Age.
Term of residence at the Asylum.
Preset Condition.
Tarn Taran
= 13 Cases. 





(1) Healthy woman
Adult 
10 years
 Healthy.

(2) 
Under 10 
Since birth
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(3) Her two children
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(4) Healthy woman
About 40 yrs.
12 years
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(5) 
(6) Her three child-
(7) ren (4). 
Since birth
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All over 8
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years.
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(8) Healthy child 
12 years
12 years
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(9) ,, ,,
10 ,,
10 ,,
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(10) Healthy woman
25 ,,
25 ,,
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(11)
Her three children.
All over 4
years.
Since birth
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(12) 


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(13) 


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In this table are thirty-five cases, all well authenticated
and personally examined by the Commission, where people
were exposed to the dangers of contagion, and yet escaped
the disease. Adding these thirty-five cases to the previous
sixty-nine cases of Table IVa, it will be seen that of one
hundred and four persons, living under conditions highly favour-
able for contracting a communicable disease, only one, or
possibly two, have become lepers ; that is, 1 or 2 per cent.
TABLE V.
Evidence in Favour of Contagion afforded by Persons Eating and
Drinking with Lepers.
ASYLUM OR
No. of Lepers.
 No. of persons eating 
How many of these 
REMARKS.
CENTRE.

and drinking with them.
are affected.

Agra
5
11
3
In one case two brothers used to eat and drink together : one of them became a leper, and fifteen years later, the other. In another case a leper father and his two daughters used to eat together. He died, and some years later the two daughters became diseased at the same time.