Abstract
<h3>Campaign Against Leprosy</h3> A campaign on behalf of the 300,000 lepers in the British Empire was launched at the Mansion House by a meeting of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, over which the Lord Mayor presided. Lord Chelmsford, chairman of the association, announced that the movement was being supported by every class in the empire, and that the king and the Prince of Wales had each contributed $500 toward the $1,250,000 it was hoped to raise. He read a letter from Lord Reading, viceroy of India, who said that there was a great field for the association in India, where, according to the census, there were 112,000 lepers, and probably many more in consequence of ignorance and a desire to conceal the disease. Sir Humphry Rolleston, president of the Royal College of Physicians, stated that, as the greatest colonizing power in the world, it was our duty to eliminate
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