International Leprosy Association -
History of Leprosy

  • International Leprosy Association -
    History of Leprosy

    Database

    Taixing County Archives

    Location

    Category Institutional Archive
    Country China
    Address Taixing County Government, Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, China

    Notes

    • 426-1-24
      A report on the control and treatment of leprosy at Taixing County by Taixing County Leprosy Home on June 2, 1959, including considerations of the essentials for control and treatment, the existing problems and some suggestions for the future. Three groups of statistics are attached to this report, including the occupations of those with leprosy, the numbers of every gongshe (an administrative district below county) from 1956 to 1958, and the occupations of 101 people affected by leprosy at Jianghua and Zhangqiao Gongshe on August 2, 1959. This records also contain information for every government department, school and association about the presence of leprosy.
    • 426-1-26
      This record is from Taixing County Leprosy Hospital to Taixing County Health Board on October 17, 1960 about leprosy in Taixing County, compiled from an extensive investigation in 1960. It contains twenty-two pages and includes inforamtion about the essential methods of investigation, the results of this investigation and an analysis, discussions of epidemiology of leprosy in this county and suggestions for control and treatment of leprosy for the future. Eleven statistics are attached to this manuscript, including the incidence of leprosy for all villages, forms of the diseases, the presence of disability, the labour force, occupations, marriages, dwellings, places of isolation and habitation.
    • 426-1-65
      This record contains an annual report, dated December 31, 1976, from Taixing County Health Board, on the control and treatment of leprosy, including numbers of those with the disease, those cured, and new admissions to the hospital.
    • 426-2-24
      This record contains a summary of the control and treatment of leprosy at Taixing County in 1956 by the Taixing Leprosy Hospital, including a description of the organization, investigation, results of investigation, treatment, grants-in-aid and medicine, merits and shortcomings, existing problems, and suggestions for the future. Three statistics are attached to this summing-up; they include inforamtion about the distribution of those with leprosy at Taixing on December 31, 1953, ages, type and sex of 1,915 people affected by leprosy in this county and the distribution of personnel for the control and treatment of leprosy.
    • 426-2-48
      This record, dated on November 21, 1958, reports on the progress of the control and treatment of leprosy in Taixing County for the last few years by the Taixing Leprosy Hospital; it includes information about the organization, investigation, cure, observation about treatment, isolation, prevention, plans for the future and some suggestions.
    • 426-2-56
      This record contains a summary of those with leprosy whose families have received BCG vaccinations in 1965, including the organization, study, method, area, results, merits and suggestions for the future.
    • A manuscript about the control and treatment of leprosy in 1965 including an assessment of the general conditions, the main merits, a check of different forms of leprosy, an additional check at Taixing, the diagnosis, the organisation of a health care group, a circuit of the whole county, a reassessment, and a discussion of the existing problems.
    • Statistics about leprosy at Taixing in 1965 is attached to this manuscript; this includes the total number of those with leprosy, the labour force, forms of those with leprosy and efficacy of treatment.
    • 426-2-61
      This record contains a summary of the activities of Taixing Skin Disease Hospital on December 31, 1961, including the investigation and identification of leprosy, its prevention, mobile clinics, the conditions of the leprosy village, experiments using Chinese medicine, costs, management of agriculture production, an assessment of merits and shortcomings, existing problems and suggestions for the future.
    • 426-2-63
      This record contains an official letter from Taixing Leprosy Hospital to the Taixing County Health Board and Office of Perishing Pests on September 25, 1961; it is about verifying the control and treatment of leprosy at Taixing County. This report contains information about medication, other aspects and suggestions for the future.
    • This record also contains two groups of statistics. One is about the numbers of those with leprosy in 1960 and in 1961. The other is about matters arising after the census conducted on September 24, 1961, including the names of all Gongshe and the different forms of the disease, those wrongly diagnosed, compliance, and supply of drugs on time.
    • 426-2-70
      This record contains a report by Taixing Leprosy Hospital in 1962; it includes an inventory of beds and personnel, numbers of the western doctors, the number of the Chinese doctors and apprentices, and the number of graduates from medical schools at Taixing Leprosy Hospital in 1962.
    • 426-4-6
      This records contains a preparatory plan, dated February 18, 1960, for building a leprosy village to isolate and cure those with the disease, including suggestions for building a village, choice of its location, management, collecting those affected by leprosy, problems of agricultural production, treatment and time schedules.

    Entry made 8 June 2004

    Contact

    Name The Librarian
    Organization Taixing County Archives
    Address Taixing County Government, Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, China

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