"All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be."--Leviticus XIII. 46. The Magistrate sat in his office, deep in thought. Before him, on his desk, lay a pile of documents of foolscap size--clinical reports as to some forty odd natives in the district, who had been cursed by God with the most bitter of all curses--the disease of leprosy. The Magistrate noted that the documents were livid white in colour--a variation from the orthodox blue of the ordinary printed form, and even this trivial circumstance seemed to have an unpleasant significance.…
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