RT Journal
T1 LEprosy in minnesota.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD April 1
VO XXXII
IS 13
SP 719
OP 719
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450400037013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450400037013
AB The "Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of Minnesota" has just been published, and among other interesting features, it contains a discussion of the subject of leprosy in that State. It has long been known that owing to the large proportion of Scandinavians among its immigrants, Minnesota has become a sort of local center for this disease, and, according to the report, there are at present thirteen and probably sixteen known lepers in the State, of a total of fifty-one that it is known have been or are now resident. It is believed there are also a few unrecorded cases, and in all probability there are at least twenty, and some claim even as high as fifty, lepers now living in Minnesota. Allowing that there are only twenty, it is assumed on the basis of the late census that there is probably a like number in each of