Founded by Rev Henry Uffmann in 1888. Still open today.

NB There was also a second, smaller (but still substantial) leprosarium at Purulia, founded in 1938 and run by a local body. Source: Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 58.

Mr K M S Smith was a lay worker with BELRA at Purulia in 1941. (Information supplied by LEPRA)

Photos of Purulia.