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Practitioner 2010; 254(1726):18

Leprosy in 1910

15 Feb 2010Registered users

'The last place where a leper settlement existed in Britain was in the Shetland Islands. There the disease seemed to have been rife, possibly owing to the fact that the natives were of Scandinavian origin and were in more or less constant communication with Norway and Iceland where the disease was prevalent.'  Extracted from a 1910 issue of The Practitioner

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