This institution was a 'preventório' - a place for children of parents with leprosy. In this particular case, boys were housed until the age of eleven, girls until twenty-one. It was inaugurated 8 September 1927, and founded and maintained by the Associação Therezinha Menino Jesus. The capacity was 200 beds.

From 1928 the State of São Paulo subsidised this institution.

(Araujo, H C S. 'A lepra e as organizações anti-leprosas do Brasil em 1936: 16.- Estado de São Paulo - Organizações anti-leprosas do Estado: Asylo-Colonia "Aymorés".' Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz, 1937:32 (1) 142-3)

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