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by the care and kind treatment which awaits them 

 there. The grounds are beautifully laid out and orna- 

 mented with trees and flowers. The garden of roses is 

 one of the finest in Bombay. In the grounds there is 

 a school for children, a Roman Catholic Church, a 

 Hindu temple and Mohammedan mosque. All the 

 Hindus that die in the asylum are cremated by the 

 inmates, according to the Hindu custom. After appro- 

 priate ceremony, in a place set apart at the extreme 

 east corner of the grounds, the rites incidental to 'cre- 

 mation are performed by the patients themselves, and 

 one khandi (28 maunds) of firewood is allowed for 

 each corpse, at a cost of 8y 2 rupees ($2.72). A bier 

 and pall are provided for the Mohammedans and the 

 corpses are removed to the cemetery at Marine Lines 

 by bearers, who are sent from the city and are paid at 

 the rate of about 7 rupees ($2.24) per corpse, to de- 

 fray the charges of conveyance and all incidental ex- 

 penses. A Mohammedan priest, who has been the sub- 

 ject of the anesthetic form of leprosy for 11 years and 

 an inmate of the asylum for 5 years, attends to the 

 spiritual needs of those inmates of the asylum who are 

 of the same religious belief and receives a small salary 

 for his services. A Soman Catholic priest from Bom- 

 bay visits the asylum regularly every week. The Roman 

 Catholic dead are removed from the asylum for burial 

 at the expense of their fund, all arrangements being 

 made for the purpose by the Rev. Father Peters, S.J. 

 The Protestants have a pauper funeral at the expense 

 of the asylum funds. The Protestant missionaries do 

 not seem to be aware of the existence of the Homeless 

 Leper Asylum or its contingent of protestant inmates. 

 One of the most interesting features of the asylum is 

 the small sewage farm connected with it, and which 

 is fertilized with sterilized sewage. The sterilization 

 is effected by collecting all the sewage and passing it 

 through a series of open tanks. This method of ster- 

 ilization and utilization of sewage has been found 



