CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
Settling in Calcutta—Our “Sporting News” 1-4
CHAPTER II.
Brother John—Mr. McGuire—Government officials—The leper asylum—An Irish woman—The Jewess—Daisy and Bella—A death scene—Eurasian lepers 5-23
CHAPTER III.
The account I wrote—Bridget—An official visit to the lepers 24-33
CHAPTER IV.
Newspaper criticism—“Truth” and Mr. Prinsep—“The Queen” 34-38
CHAPTER V.
Efforts to comfort—Our subscription fund—Improvements 39-47
CHAPTER VI.
Miss O’Brien—Amateur actors—A performance in aid of our fund 48-55
CHAPTER VII.
White lepers—Dr. MacLaren—Heat and misery 56-62
CHAPTER VIII.
Need for a home for European and Eurasian lepers—Our public meeting 63-73
CHAPTER IX.
Hope—Kate Reilly 74-80
CHAPTER X.
Archdeacon Michell—Disposal of our fund—The leper cat—The idiot boy 81-88
CHAPTER XI.
The nuns of Loretto Convent 89-94
CHAPTER XII.
Medicine—No warm baths—An ugly looking-glass—Christmas-day in the Leper Asylum—The leper boy—Mr. Bailey 95-111
CHAPTER XIII.
Lepers in Bombay—A lecture at the Sorosis Club—Our departure from India 112-119
CHAPTER XIV.
Remarks on Leprosy, by Surgeon-major G. G. MacLaren, M.D. 120-127