3,298 matches out of all 3,298, 211 to 240 displayed.
| 1859 | Commission to inquire into the sanitary state of the British Army in India hands down report in 1863. [Other] [Europe, India] |
| 1859 | Fiji: Rev Mr Moore of the Methodist Mission recorded as treating leprosy there. [People] [Pacific Islands] |
| 1860 | 1860-1874 - General Robert C. Camp, a Virginia-born planter, commissions the construction of the plantation manor house, and brings his troops up from New Orleans for rest and relaxation on this site (Daughters of Charity, West Central Province Archives, “Record Group 11-2, Records of the National Hansen’s Disease Programs, Carville, Louisiana, Marillac Provincialate, St. Louis, Missouri”) [Other] [Carville, North America] |
| 1860 | Carville1860-1874 - General Robert C Camp, a Virginia-born planter, commissions the construction of the plantation manor house, and brings his troops up from New Orleans for rest and relaxation on the site of Carville. (http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm) [Leprosarium] [USA] |
| 1860 | Hospital dos LázarosHospital passes from the administration of the Santa Casa da Misericordia de Olinda to that of the Santa Casa do Recife. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz, 1933:27 (3) 293) [Leprosarium] [Brazil] |
| 1860 | Pulau Serimbun"1860 August, the Senior Surgeon on his regular tour of inspection visited Pulau Serimbun (off Malacca) which had already come into use as an asylum for persons afflicted with leprosy. He was so taken up with conditions there that he wrote in his report: 'I consider Pulo Simbang [Pulau Serimbun] peculiarly well adapted for the establishment of a lazaretto, and would respectfully leave it to the consideration of his Honour, the Governor, whether means could not be devised for ending all the lepers from this Station [ie Singapore] and Penang also to Pulo Simbang'. He thought the island large enough to accommodate all cases from the Straits, and would appeal to people who were shunned even by their friends. This proposal however, did not find favour with the Governor ..." Straits Settlements Records 16.8.1860 cited in A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 27-8. [Leprosarium] [Straits Settlements] |
| 1862 | Leprosy Commission pronounces that leprosy is hereditary. [Organisation] |
| 1862 | "Leprosy, which in Europe and America had become well nigh an historical disease, is again beginning to show itself in various localities in the old and new worlds. This fact will justify me in laying before the public a short account of the disease as I have observed it in the Island Of Madagascar. The number of cases treated in the dispensary of Antananarivo during the year 1862 was nearly one hundred". "An Account of Tubercular Leprosy in the Island of Madagascar", by Andrew Davidson, Edinburgh Medical Journal 10 (1865): 33 [Epidemiology] [Africa, Madagascar] |
| 1862 | Belgaum Leprosy HospitalEstablished [Leprosarium] [India] |
| 1863 | Interrogatories concerning leprosy sent out by Assistant Surgeon H V Carter of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital - the Native General Hospital. Source: Proceedings of the Government of Bombay in the General Department extracted in Report on Leprosy and Leper Asylums in Norway: with References to India by Henry Vandyke Carter London: G E Eyre and W Spottiswoode, 1874). [People] [India] |
| 1863 | In September 1863, the Penang Resident informed the Governor of plans to build an isolation center on Pulau Jerejak, a smaller island, lying off the main island of Penang. The Chinese community would, the Resident said, co-operate and raise $10,000 for the purpose. He wanted the Governor to choose a suitable site on the island. Straits Settlements Records 4.9.1863 cited in A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 28. [Leprosarium] |
| 1863 | Pulau JerejakA firm proposal to erect a hospital or asylum on the island specially for leprosy sufferers in Penang was made by its Resident Councillor when he wrote to the Governor of the Straits Settlements on 4th September 1863. According to the Resident, the Chinese in Penang were prepared to raise $10,000 at least for the construction of buildings. The Resident asked the Governor to select a site for the hospital and expressed the view that it might be useful to pass a general Act empowering the removal of paupers and leprosy sufferers to islands adjacent to the various stations in the Straits Settlements. The Governor was pleased with the move and prepared to make a grant of the land for the proposed site. He would prepare and send a draft enactment to the india Office for enforcing compulsory residence. Within three weeks the Resident informed the Governor that $14,000 had been subscribed towards the project. The Governor immediately sanctioned a grant of land and ordered the Public Works Department to prepare suitable plans. (A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 39) [Leprosarium] [Malaysia] |
| 1864 | Military Cantonments Act is passed in order to regulate military hygiene in India (a system of sanitary police). Military hygiene became the responsibility of military medical officers and civilian health became the responsibility of the Sanitary Commissioners (Harrison 9). [Legislation] [India] |
| 1864 | Sweden: a small leper asylum opened at Jerfso. [Other] [Europe] |
| 1864 | Lady Willingdon SettlementReport from Surgeon E A Trimnell, Chingleput 5-6 under treatment. [Leprosarium] [India] |
| 1864 | Pulau JerejakIn October 1864, a special committee consisting of the Senior Surgeon, the Assistant Surgeon of Penang and Executive Engineer met to examine the situation and on the 4th of the same month forwarded their Report to the Governor. Their findings were that the site of the proposed hospital was a "good one", "the best that could have been selected on the island ... 120 feet from the beach and about 15 feet above high water mark". "The spot was clean and well-cleared of jungle". The soil was sandy and drained well after rain and there was an abundance of good water near by "after careful consideration nothing could be found to militate against it as a suitable position for a hospital". In the opinion of the Committee "the recent cases of fever" were due to "great exposure" "whilst digging in the foundations." (A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 39) [Leprosarium] [Malaysia] |
| 1865 | New Caledonia: incidence of the disease - 90/mille (Rogers 8). [Epidemiology] [Pacific Islands] |
| 1865 | Establishment of Molokai, Hawaii. [Other] [Pacific Islands] |
| 1865 | JesushilfeIn 1865 the German pilgrims, von Keffenbrink and wife, from Nehringen on Tribsee, arrived in Jerusalem. They were appalled by the leprosy sufferers and approached Bishop Gobat with the offer of erecting, at their expense, a suitable institution. A committee was set up whose members were, apart from the bishop, the English medical missionary Dr. Chaplin, the German consul in Jerusalem, Dr. Rozen, and the clergyman Valentiner. Dr. Rozen purchased a plot near the water source of Mamilla (today at Agron Street no. 20, Jerusalem). The renowned Swiss architect in Jerusalem, Conrad Schick, prepared the plans for a modest building which was constructed by an Arab builder. Appointed director of the institution was the (male) nurse Tappen, previously a missionary among the Eskimos. His wife assisted him in his task. Tappen belonged to the Bohemian Brothers (Böhmische Brüder), a religious order rooted in the teachings of Jan Huss (1370 - 1415), founded in the 18th century by Graf von Zinzendorf. The order worked in various parts of the world. In 1818 it founded a leprosy settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. cited in Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal. [Leprosarium] [Palestine] |
| 1866 | Louisiana: French immigrants are recorded with leprosy. [Epidemiology] [Europe, North America] |
| 1866 | KalaupapaFounded [Leprosarium] [Hawaii] |
| 1866 | KalawaoFounded [Leprosarium] [Hawaii] |
| 1866 | Almora TLM Hospital and HomeAsylum had 100 inmates [Leprosarium] [India] |
| 1867 | On the 29th April, 1867, the very month of the transfer of the administration of the Straits Settlements (SS) from the jurisdiction of the India Office to the Colonial Office (1st April, 1867), the Secretary of State dispatched to the new Governor of the Straits Settlements ten copies of the final report adopted by the Royal College of Physicians in London on the subject of leprosy. The Governor was asked to give the report the widest circulation in every library or scientific institution and to every medical officer. The Governor was also requested to inform the Secretary of State “whether any law or practice” existed “in the colony under your Government … for the compulsory seclusion of lepers …[and] If any such legislation existed the Governor was instructed to “take all steps in your power for their abrogation” Despatch ex CO 29.4. 1867 cited in A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 33. [Other] [Malaysia, Singapore] |
| 1867 | JesushilfeThe asylum was constructed on a plot of 7800 sq.m. Schick’s plan allowed for eight rooms, a kitchen and bathroom, but only two rooms were erected. The building cost 1,000 golden napoleons . Initially patients feared to enter the facility and at its opening only four of the fifty intended took up residence-all were Moslems. Dedication of the house took place on May 30th 1867. Appointed treasurer was the German banker Protiger, resident in Jerusalem, and the Englishman Chaplin was the doctor. The latter ranked among the leprosy experts of the world, as did Prof. Haesser of Breslau. A year after the institution was opened it was full, inhabited by 12 patients. The second report, for 1868-70, spoke of 15. However, most sufferers were still with-out the house. One reason for this was the sufferers’ refusal of the celibacy demanded of them. As leprosy was considered to be hereditary, the sexes were kept apart. Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal. [Leprosarium] [Palestine] |
| 1868 | Hansen first came into contact with leprosy. Photo of Hansen [People] |
| 1868 | JesushilfeIn 1868 the missionary Dr. Carl Sandretzky (father of the physician Dr. Max Sandretzky) noted: "the authorities are only concerned that they (the leprosy victims), after diagnosis of the disease, be expelled, to a village in which sufferers are concentrated. There they will establish, as for example in Jerusalem, a community at the head of which will be a Sheikh. The latter, naturally, will be one of them." They were given a place to live far from the city and were permitted to fend for themselves. Most, naturally, chose the easiest way - begging, because with progression of the disease, standing became difficult. It appears that a leprosy settlement or village existed at the time of the British Mandate. Living in it, were, in the main, severely affected patients who wished to marry. This was because of the prohibition against marriage. The City of Jerusalem gave them one grush daily (the lowest denomination coin). In addition they could receive, according to their wishes, ambulatory treatment at the hospital. Y Katzenellenbogen "On the Question of Leprosy in the Land of Israel" Harefouh (1946): 139-143 cited in Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal. [Leprosarium] [Palestine] |
| 1868 | Pulau JerejakThe Governor informed the newly appointed Legislative Council of the Crown Colony that he proposed to send most of the leprosy sufferers of the Straits Settlements to Pulau Jerejak. (A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 39) [Leprosarium] [Malaysia] |
| 1868 | Lazaretto, Black RockIn 1868, a report was issued by a commission appointed to purchase a site for the erection of a lunatic asylum under the Act of 11 August 1868. (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from records at the Barbados Museum and Archives) [Leprosarium] [West Indies] |
| 1868 | BagamoyoA Catholic Mission was set up in Bagamoyo. Source: H Goergen "The History of Health Care in Tanzania", exhibition catalogue [no date]. (NB The ILA Global Project on the History of Leprosy is not responsible for the content of external websites.) [Leprosarium] [German East Africa] |
