3,298 matches out of all 3,298, 2,821 to 2,850 displayed.
| 1954 | Cuttack Leper HospitalIn 1954, the Baptist mission handed over its management to the government of Orissa on December 14, 1954. The Government deputed two doctors, one to serve as the superintendent and the other as medical officer (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989: 135) [Leprosarium] [India] |
| 1954 | PuriIn 1954, the Government of Orissa launched the National Leprosy Control Programme on December 14, 1954 in accordance with the national policy formulated by the Government of India. The first project under the programme began at Gurujang, Khurda in Puri district covering a population of about 80 000 under the care of two medical officers. (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989) [Leprosarium] [India] |
| 1954 | Pulau JerejakAt the Pulau Jerejak Settlement too, reduced in the post-war years to some 400 patients occupying 131 semi-detached houses in the western part of theisland, patients were engaged in similar activities, but on a smaller scale: "Gardening, poultry rearing, fishing are the main occupations. Each community has its own club room, where reading and indoor games are indulged in." (A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 148) [Leprosarium] [Malaysia] |
| 1954 | Princess Zenebework Memorial Hospital1954-1964: K F Schaller was Director of the hospital. [Leprosarium] [Ethiopia] |
| 1955 | Greater Bombay Leprosy Control Scheme (GBLCS) started in Mumbai by establishing five peripheral clinics in General Hospitals for diagnostic and treatment services. Domicilliary treatment started. Name of Acworth Leprosy Home changed to ‘Acworth Leprosy Hospital’. Number of clinics under GBLCS increased to ten to cover entire Bombay. (p3 Bhatki, "Report on Anti-Leprosy Activities in Mumbai") [Treatment] [India] |
| 1955 | NLCP, SET pattern and domiciliary treatment in India (Dongre, ILA History Workshop, July 2000) [Treatment] [India] |
| 1955 | Vertical National Leprosy Control Programme was launched in India to provide organised case detection and domiciliary dapsone treatment in selected high endemic areas. (Independent Evaluation of NLEP - June, 1955) [Treatment] [India] |
| 1955 | Leprosy Control Programme was included in India's National Five Year Plan providing 50 per cent central funds. (Independent Evaluation of NLEP - June, 1955) [Other] [India] |
| 1955 | On March 5-6, 1955, the State Health Minister, Srimati Basantamanjari Devi participated at the V All India Leprosy Workers' Conference at Jamshedpur. [People] [India] |
| 1955 | "The leprosy control programme started in 1955 in Shandong province, using a vertical approach. After more than 20 years effort against this disease through intensive case finding, case olding, implementation of chemotherapy, first with dapsone monotherapy, and later with a combination of dapsone and rifampicin, the prevalence and incidence of leprosy declined significantly by the late 1970s and early 1980s".(Chen Shumin, Liu Dingchang, Liu Bing, Zhang Lin and Yu Xioulu, "Role of Leprosy Villages and Leprosaria in Shandong Province, People's Republic of China: Past, Present and Future" Leprosy Review74 (2003): 222-8.) [Treatment] [China] |
| 1955 | Dr John H Wallace was appointed Assistant Bacteriologist of the Leonard Wood Memorial Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts "Appendix 1 Important Dates and Events in the Scientific Program of the Leonard Wood Memorial" in Forty Years of Leprosy Research: History of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) 1928 to 1967 by Esmond R Long (Washington DC: Office of the Medical Director, Leonard Wood Memorial, 1967) [Organisation] |
| 1955 | Fantôme Island: “The year has been a successful one with 13 discharges and only five admissions. The good results obtained with the sulphone drugs and the continuing high rate of discharge of patients makes it possible that in a few years time Hansen’s disease will be almost completely eliminated from the coloured population of Queensland. Health Department Annual Report extract: (1955-56) M H Gabriel, Acting Superintendent “Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy)” According to the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st of December 1954 there were twenty-five people on Peel Island and forty-eight on Fantôme. In 1955/6, 8 new cases of Hansen's Disease were notified in the State of Queensland .59/100,000. (from the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st December 1963) [Epidemiology, Treatment] [Australasia] |
| 1955 | Uganda: In 1955, Dr JA Kinnear Brown, Government Leprosy Specialist, estimated that 80 000 persons suffered from leprosy in Uganda (population over 5m). Fewer than 2 500 patients were accommodated in the five available voluntary settlements. [Epidemiology, People] [Africa, Uganda] |
| 1955 | Thane District, Maharashtra, India: 1,206 cases were under treatment in asylums. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer: Government of Maharashtra Thane District (Revised Edition). Bombay: Gazetteers Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1982. 1st edn: 1882. 2nd edn (rev) 1982, p. 897. [Epidemiology] [India] |
| 1955 | Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India: 60 deaths from leprosy. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Kolhapur District. Bombay: Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications. Maharashtra State 1960. 1st edn. 1886. 2nd (rev) 1960, p. 784. [Epidemiology] [India] |
| 1955 | UzuakoliThe Nigeria Leprosy Service Research Unit: Annual Report 1955 describes the "Leprosy Research Unit … as part of the Nigeria Leprosy Service, Eastern region, with the Federal Government retaining a financial interest in it." Its functions are described as including (1) Preliminary trials of new drugs; (2) Serological studies; (3) Biochemistry; (4) Some aspects of epidemiology". It also states: "DDS continues to hold the field as the standard anti-leprosy drug in general use at Settlements and outstations. There are still no signs of the development of drug resistance to it." [Leprosarium] [Nigeria] |
| 1955 | Kumi Leprosy CentreIn the report for report 1954-55, it was announced that DDS had been adopted as the routine method for treatment, in doses up to a maximum of 4 tablets, twice a week. (122/5 Archives of the Leprosy Mission, International) [Leprosarium] [Uganda] |
| 1955 | San PabloThe leprosarium had around 780 patients. Source: Augusto Saldaña, "Notas sobre el compromiso ocular en la Lepra, con referencia especial a los niños", Revista Medica de Iquitos, 2.4-6 (1950): 99-100: p. 99. [Leprosarium] [Peru] |
| 1955 | San PabloThe first 15 patients were discharged as cured. Source: "Care for lepers in Peru improved", New York Times, Jan 15, 1956, p. 20. [Leprosarium] [Peru] |
| 1956 | Frank Davey reported use of Diphenylthiourea (CIBA 1906) [Treatment] |
| 1956 | 1956-1971 - Extension of Control Programme in India to more endemic rural areas. (Independent Evaluation of NLEP - June, 1955) [Other] [India] |
| 1956 | "After the new China was established, the Communist Party and the government attached great importance to leprosy control. In the early 1950s, although national resources were limited, a living allowance was provided to leprosy patients and efforts were made to study leprosy control." (Professor Yin Dakui, Vice Minister of Health, the People's Republic of China, "Achievements and Prospect on Leprosy Prevention and Control in China", September 7, 1998, Bejing) [Other] [China] |
| 1956 | "In 1956, the central government indicated in the National Program on Agricultural Development that leprosy control should be actively carried out." (Professor Yin Dakui, Vice Minister of Health, the People's Republic of China, "Achievements and Prospect on Leprosy Prevention and Control in China", September 7, 1998, Bejing) [Other] [China] |
| 1956 | "In the spring of 1956, a leprosy 'resettlement' was built up in a remote valley by local villages in Junan County. Nine leprosy patients were forced to resettle in areas of land delineated for them to farm. The first leprosy village run by the government was established in Haiyang County in the winter of 1956." (Chen Shumin, Liu Dingchang, Liu Bing, Zhang Lin and Yu Xioulu, "Role of Leprosy Villages and Leprosaria in Shandong Province, People's Republic of China: Past, Present and Future" Leprosy Review74 (2003): 222-8.) [Other] [China] |
| 1956 | In 1956, Dr Doull participated in an international conference convened in Rome, Italy, by the Order of Malta for the welfare of leprosy patients "Appendix 1 Important Dates and Events in the Scientific Program of the Leonard Wood Memorial" in Forty Years of Leprosy Research: History of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) 1928 to 1967 by Esmond R Long (Washington DC: Office of the Medical Director, Leonard Wood Memorial, 1967) [Organisation] |
| 1956 | In 1956 the epidemiological unit, Corpus Christi, Texas, under the direction of Dr Kluth, was discontinued "Appendix 1 Important Dates and Events in the Scientific Program of the Leonard Wood Memorial" in Forty Years of Leprosy Research: History of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) 1928 to 1967 by Esmond R Long (Washington DC: Office of the Medical Director, Leonard Wood Memorial, 1967) [Organisation] |
| 1956 | In 1956, staff participated in the first Conference on Progress and Potentials in Leprosy Research, held at the US Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana, under sponsorship of the US Public Health Service Interbureau Advisory Committee on Leprosy "Appendix 1 Important Dates and Events in the Scientific Program of the Leonard Wood Memorial" in Forty Years of Leprosy Research: History of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) 1928 to 1967 by Esmond R Long (Washington DC: Office of the Medical Director, Leonard Wood Memorial, 1967) [Organisation] |
| 1956 | The annual report on leprosy in Queensland noted that “It can be seen that the average length of stay in hospital has been cut to approximately one third by the use of the newer treatment. More significant still, the readmission rate has dropped to less that one-eighth of the old rate. There can be no room for doubt that the newer treatment is vastly superior to the old treatment.” Fantome Island: “As with the white patients the whole outlook of the coloured patients has altered as the result of modern treatment. Most of the patients take treatment regularly so that they might return home. It is interesting to note that while the disease progresses more rapidly than in white patients, the response to sulphones, even in smaller does, is quicker. The patients are under the care of members of the order of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary whose kindness and attention have earned the affection of all the patients.” (M H Gabriel, Acting Superintendent “Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy)” Health Department Annual Report extract: 1956-57) According to the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st of January 1957, there were twenty people on Peel Island and twenty-nine on Fantôme. In 1956/7, 7 new cases of Hansen's Disease were notified in the State of Queensland .51/100,000 (from the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st December 1963) [Epidemiology, Treatment] [Australasia] |
| 1956 | Sholapur District, Maharashtra, India: 154 deaths due to leprosy. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer: Government of Maharashtra, Sholapur District (Revised edition). Bombay Gazetteers Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1977. 1st edn 1884. 2nd edn (rev): 1977. p. 791. [Epidemiology] [India] |
| 1957 | Ten men with leprosy beaten to death on an island off the coast of Korea (Feeny 172) [Other] [Korea] |