HELPING the LEPERS to HELP THEMSELVES 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS, INC., 156 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK 
 
 The hut of sticks, which he has built for himself, makes this 
 aged leper fortunate among his fellow sufferers who are, 
 for the most part, without shelter of any kind. 
 
 This little caravan, composed of 
 a man for 20 years a leper, his 
 motherless daughter, and the 
 small son of a leper neighbor, 
 travelled a ten day journey t< 
 the nearest leper hospital. 
 
 At the well. 
 
 For two months through the 
 jungle this widow leper painfully 
 trudged, carrying her three year 
 old child, to reach the Leper 
 Hospital at Chiengmai, Siam. 
 
 Children in one of the Mission's 30 Homes for the well 
 children of leper parents. (Leprosy is not hereditary.) 
 
 "Main Street" in a typical Leper 
 Mission Colony. A cottage for 6 lepers 
 costs $300. Imagine an outcast leper 
 enjoying for the first time self-respect¬ 
 ing citizenship in a community like this. 
 
 Women patients share in 
 the work of the colonies 
 
 Wash day. 
 
 Sewing garments for their fellow 
 
 patients. 
 
Blind lepers weaving mats, baskets and sandals 
 ■for use in the colony. 
 
 Scale Model of typica 
 an Exposition in Bangka 
 
 iiamese 
 
 Japanese lepers gathering wood to make charcoal for fuel 
 
 Leper fishermen trawling for the daily supply of fish for the colony. 
 
 Cows may not seem 
 to be even remotely 
 connected with the 
 cure for leprosy, but 
 a diet which includes 
 plenty of good milk, 
 aids the treatment. 
 The dairy is another 
 department of a 
 modern leper colony 
 which can be han¬ 
 dled by the patients 
 themselves. 
 
 churches and schools from models which 
 is are taught and funds are conserved. 
 
 Leper patients build their own 
 they construct in advance; th 
 
 Bakers. 
 
 Haying combines good exercise and useful work, 
 
 ir the cattle. 
 
 and provides cheap fodder foi 
 
 How The American Mission to Lepers 
 Helps the Leper to Help Himself 
 
 A Leper "Symphony 
 Orchestra." Music, 
 produced entirely by 
 local talent, provides 
 activity and good 
 cheer, both impor¬ 
 tant aspects of the 
 treatment for lep¬ 
 rosy. 
 
 Thousands of lepers for whom there is no room in the leper 
 hospitals receive medical treatment through the Mission's 
 out-patient clinics; but vast numbers are still unaided. 
 
 Each Leper Mission Colony has its Church. As was recently 
 said by the President of the American Federation of Labor, 
 "No policy for relief . . . would be worth while unless it em¬ 
 phasized the importance of intangible human values and 
 sought the advancement of those things which are spiritual 
 and eternal." 
 
 Boy Scout Troop 
 of the Protestant 
 Church support¬ 
 ed by the Amer¬ 
 ican Mission to 
 Lepers, at the 
 Culion Leper Col¬ 
 ony, Philippine 
 Islands. Boys re¬ 
 leased as cured 
 have a better 
 chance of getting 
 employment i f 
 they have had 
 Scout training. 
 
 Even the lepers 
 have their "O- 
 berammergau" 
 and every col¬ 
 ony has its 
 church. 
 
 The American Mission to Lepers, aiding in the care of lepers 
 at 150 hospitals in 40 countries, enlists the cooperation of 
 churches, governments and other agencies in a program to 
 FREE THE WORLD FROM LEPROSY. 
 
 Since the lepers, when able, are encouraged to be self-supporting, only $40 is required 
 to cover food, shelter, clothing, and medical treatment for a patient for one year. $30 
 will provide a year's care for a child. 
 
 The Mission is supported entirely by voluntary subscriptions, which may be sent to: 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS, INC. 
 
 156 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK 
 
 7 “re a surer 
 
 FLEMING H REVELL 
 
 General Secret a 
 W. M. DANNE 
 
 'President 
 
 WM. JAY SCHIEFFELIN 
 
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"Who's next?" An 
 outdoor leper clinic 
 typical of those 
 which are making 
 medical treatment 
 available to thou¬ 
 sands of lepers for 
 whom there is no 
 room in the hospi¬ 
 tals. 
 
 Surprising skill is shown by leper patients trained as nurses and operating room assistants. They are 
 happy to be usefully occupied and their servicer, reduce the danger run by healthy workers. 
 
 THE WORLD’S MOST UNFORTUNATE 
 PEOPLE NEED YOUR HELP! 
 
 What Your Dollars Will Do- 
 
 $2 four pairs of sandals. 
 
 $3 a pair of blankets. 
 
 $5 food for a leper for 2 months or 
 
 a cake of soap for each leper in a whole colony. 
 
 $10 two years of weekly treatments with Chaulmoogra Oil, a 
 period sufficient to cure a case in the early stages. 
 
 $40 food, clothing, shelter and medical treatment for an adult 
 leper for I year. $30 will give the same to a child. 
 
 $300 a cottage for 6 to 12 lepers. 
 
 $500 an Out-Patient Leprosy Clinic. 
 
 $1,000 a brick building to shelter 20 lepers. 
 $2,000 an equipped Dispensary. 
 
 $3,000 a Church for a Leper Colony. 
 
 Help the Lepers to Help Themselves by Sending a Gift to 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS, INC., 156 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK 
 
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 An American woman missionary treating an African 
 leper woman and her child. The Mission is now aiding 
 lepers at 19 different stations throughout Africa. 
 
 Old vs. new methods of treating leprosy. Would you 
 rather trust your case to a native witch doctor with his 
 potions of tigers' teeth and hoptoads' claws, or to a 
 modern "Medicine Man" with his scientific knowledge? 
 
 source of the cure for leprosy—the fruit of the Chaulmoogra 
 
 from whose seeds is pressed the oil used in hypodermic in- 
 Courtesy of U. S. Dept, of Agriculture