Sanitation 705 



been proved that leprosy is transmissible, and it may be regarded 

 as an essential sanitary precaution that lepers should be segregated 

 and mingle as little as possible with healthy persons. The disease 

 is not hereditary, so that there is no reason why lepers should not 

 marry among themselves. The children should, however, be taken 

 from the parents lest they be subsequently infected. 



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