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    1873 Purulia, Chota NagporeThe construction of the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1888 Purulia, Chota NagporeThe German Evangelical Lutheran Mission ran the leprosarium at Purulia. This was the largest institution of The Mission to Lepers - "a model leper village". Medical work was done there under the direction of Dr. Muir of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. In addition, there was a research laboratory there. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1888 Purulia, Chota NagporeFounded. 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]
    1890 Purulia, Chota NagporeWellesley Bailey visited Purulia in 1890.
    Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91, London: John Shaw, 1891 [Leprosarium] [India]
    1890 Purulia, Chota NagporePurulia was visited by the Leprosy Commission in 1890 [Leprosarium] [India]
    1891 Purulia, Chota NagporeBailey noted that Mr. & Mrs Uffman and Mr Kufernagel were superintendents at the Asylum. There is a photo of the asylum: Chota Nagpore. (p.121) The Lepers of Our Indian Empire, by Wellesley Bailey, London: Shaw, 1892. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1891 Purulia, Chota NagporeA grant of Rs. 100 per annum was made to the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1895 Purulia, Chota NagporeA proposal was made to declare the existing mission to be an asylum under section 3 of Act V of 1895 West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1901 Purulia, Chota NagporeThe India Lepers' Act was introduced in Bengal from May, 1901, and proposal was made to declare the leprosy asylum, Purulia maintained by the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, an institution under the Act, on certain conditions West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeMembers for the management of leprosy asylum, Purulia were appointed. A contribution to the salary of the Medical Officer in charge of the leprosy asylum, Purulia was made, and plans and estimates for additional buildings were assembled West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeComplaints from people in the leprosy asylum were received, and rules for the management of the asylum were formulated West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeA grant of Rs. 5,200 was sanctioned for the construction of 2 wards for males and females, and Rs. 5 was made for each person with leprosy West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeA portion of the leprosy asylum, Purulia was to be made an asylum under Act III of 1898 West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeA proposal was made for the use of the leprosy asylum, Purulia, belonging to the Mission of the Lepers in India and the East, as an asylum under section 3 of the Leper’s Act of 1898 West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeDraft rules for carrying out the purposes of the Leper’s Act at the leprosy asylum, Purulia to the Commissioner of the Chota-Nagpur Division were supplied West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1902 Purulia, Chota NagporeThe Honorary. Organising Secretary of India and the East was appointed as a member of the Board for the management of the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1903 Purulia, Chota NagporeThe Leper’s Act was extended to the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1903 Purulia, Chota NagporeA grant of Rs. 2000 was made to the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1904 Purulia, Chota NagporeA grant was made to Reverend T Hahn of the leprosy asylum, Purulia to conduct his experiment with Capt. Rost’s Leprolin treatment West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1905 Purulia, Chota NagporeA Capitation Grant of Rs. 8,100 a year has been paid for a period of 3 years towards the maintenance of the leprosy asylum, Purulia. This sum was Rs. 1-8 per head per mensem for 450 people with leprosy. The Lt. Gov. was prepared to sanction Capitation Grants to the asylums at Raniganj, Asansol, Bankura on the same scale on the condition that the Mission to Lepers agreed to have them brought under the operation of the Leper’s Act and to arrange that the Lepers from the District of Birbhum were received into one of them. The Act would in that case be extended to the Districts of Burdwan, Bankura and Birbhum. The introduction of the Act into Ranchi and Bhagalpur would be postponed till the effects of its operation in Burdwan, Birbhum and Bankura were known West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1905 Purulia, Chota NagporeA report on the experiment made with Capt. Rost’s Leprolin West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1907 Purulia, Chota NagporeAn increase from Rs. 8,100 to Rs. 12,000 was made in the annual grant towards the support of the leprosy asylum, Purulia for 3 years from April 1, 1907 West Bengal State Archives [Leprosarium] [India]
    1919 Purulia, Chota NagporeThere were 733 patients there in 1919 (E B Sharpe, "Personal Communication to Perry Burgess" (1937) [Leprosarium] [India]
    1931 Purulia, Chota NagporeThis was an agricultural colony, with 756 residents.
    Director: Mr EB Sharpe.
    Physicians: Dr M Wardman, Dr RG Rghunath Rao, and Dr AT Roy, aided by 8 medical assistants.
    Managed by the Church Mission Society, and financed by the Mission for Lepers and the Bihar Government.
    There were 4 hospital wards and substantial buildings.
    Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098. [Leprosarium] [India]
    1932 Purulia, Chota NagporeThornton, M P, 'The duties of a nursing superintendent in a leprosy settlement'. Leprosy Review, 1932:3 (3) 126.
    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]
    1932 Purulia, Chota NagporePurulia Leper Hospital. Annual Medical Report'. Lep. India, 1932:4 (4) 216 [Leprosarium] [India]
    1932 Purulia, Chota NagporeContinentino, L, 'Colonia Santa Isabel - Dados estatisticos e informações sobre leprosarios: Leprosario de Purulia. - Conferencia feita na Sociedade Mineira de Engenheiros'. Extract from Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 5-4-1932.
    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]
    1935 Purulia, Chota NagporeThere were 1 500 outpatients under treatment in 1935 (E B Sharpe, "Personal Communication to Perry Burgess" (1937) [Leprosarium] [India]
    1937 Purulia, Chota NagporeThere were 878 patients in 1937 (E B Sharpe, "Personal Communication to Perry Burgess" (1937) [Leprosarium] [India]
    1937 Purulia, Chota NagporeAnnual report for the year 1936 of the Purulia Leper Home and Hospital of the Mission to Lepers'. Lep. India, 1937:9 (2) 69.
    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]
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