CEYLON. 



IS!) 



through a series of native villages, rice fields, marshes 

 and strips of primeval forests and dense jungles. The 

 colony is located on seventeen acres of land enclosed by 

 a stone wall. The numerous one-story buildings of 

 brick and mortar are connected by roofed cement, walks. 

 The entire settlement, exclusive of physicians, numbers 

 360, of whom there are only 69 women. The young- 

 est patient is only 6 years old. One of the patients, a 

 man 60 years of age, has been here for thirty years. 

 He is afflicted with the anesthetic form of the disease. 



Fig. 35. — Leper Asylum at Hentlala. 



is totally blind and has lost all of his fingers and toes. 

 The disease has cured itself, but has left the patient a 

 helpless, shapeless mass of flesh. .It appears that the 

 anesthetic and tubercular forms of the disease occur 

 about with the same frequency. The institution is 

 well managed and the nurses and two resident physi- 

 sicians do all in their power to render the existence of 

 these hopelessly diseased victims as comfortable as pos- 

 sible. The patients appeared to be content with their 

 fate and the humane restraint that is practiced. The 



