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    1890 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Founded [Leprosarium] [India]
    1898 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Lepers Act: This was applied to the city of Bombay in June 1911 and the Acworth Leper Asylum at Matoonga was notified as the asylum serving that area. (Cochrane 221)
    Leper Asylum - Managed by H. A. Acworth. Initial enforced segregation, Section 424 of Municipal Act of 1888. Dr. N. H. Chowsky in charge [Leprosarium] [India]
    1898 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Annual Sanitation report mentions a visit by a German Plague Commissioner [Leprosarium] [India]
    1900 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Acworth, H A, 'The Matoonga Asylum in Bombay'. Bib. Int. Lep., 1900:1 (3) 151.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1903 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Choksy, N H, 'Report on leprosy and the Homeless Leper Asylum, Matunga, Bombay, 1890-1897. Bib. Int. Lep., 1903:3 (3) 165. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1904 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Oppenheim, M, 'Das Lepra-Asyl Matunga in Bombay'. Arch. f. Dermat. u. Syph., 1904:69 263.
    Source: Keffer, L, Índice Bibliográfico da Lepra:1.500-1.944, Vol II, I-P. Biblioteca do Departamento da Lepra do São Paulo, Brasil, 1946. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1924 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Wellesley Bailey refers to Matunga Government Asylum as subsidised by the Leprosy Mission
    Bailey, W. Fifty Years' Work for Lepers 1874-1924, London: The Mission to Lepers, 1924 (p.52) [Leprosarium] [India]
    1928 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency, Bombay: Government Central Press. (Maharashtra State Archives R 3706/2) [Leprosarium] [India]
    1931 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)The hospital was run by a board of managers, and sourced by public (municipal and government) funds. The director was ISP Rodreiguo; medical treatment was overseen by M Figuerido. In 1931 the hospital was full to capacity, housing 364 patients in 12 'pavillion type' wards.
    Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1935 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Acworth Asylum at Matunga near Bombay City was reported to have 364 inmates and was seriously overcrowded "Agitation in Bombay" International Journal of Leprosy 3 (1935): 504. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1941 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Capacity to house 350 patients. Run by government or 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. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1957 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)At its peak this year, the Hospital housed 500 patients. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1963 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Stanley Browne's visit to Acworth - meetings with Dr N Figueredo, N D Katdare, K K Kotecha, Dr P Kapoor, Special Leprosy Officer, Maharathra State, Poona [Leprosarium] [India]
    1984 Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)GW Acworth "Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Bombay", Lepr Rev 55.1 (1984): 77-8. [Leprosarium] [India]
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