Lazarópolis do Prata64 entered, 39 left, 20 died, 379 remained. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , 1933:27, 204)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1926
The "Gram Sangathana Kendra Leprosy Clinic" at Chowdwar was established by Sri Laxmi Narayan Sahu.[People][India]
1926
TungkunT C Wu, Rev John Lake and Rev Zee Ding-chong visited the asylum, accompanied by the new director of the asylum, Rev Fr Diehl. Mr Wu gave the following account: 'The Tungkun Leper Asylum is under the control of the Rhenish Mission which, as the Roman Catholic Mission [running the leprosy asylum at Sheklung ], is also getting the support from the Canton government to the amount of $500 a month. There were approximately three hundred lepers, both male and female, in that asylum. It is being run on a much smaller scale than Sheklung, and it is not so well developed as the other. The chaulmoogra oil treatment was also denied to the lepers for the same reason that Father Deswazieres gave. [i.e. "no money"]. In addition to this great disappointment we saw several perfectly normal boys and girls living together with their leprous parents in wards full of abominable air and terrible human beings. It did not seem to us to be right. We realize the difficulty in separating the children from their leprous parents, but in order to save young lives we have to be rigid in this matter. We earnestly hope that the authorities of the Tungkun Asylum will see this point and remedy the situation.' Source: T C Wu (General Secretary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers), "A report of my trip to South China", The Leper Quarterly, 1 (1927): 13-28, at p. 21.[Leprosarium][China]
1926
Hospital dos LázarosO Hospital dos Lazaros é um estabelecimento modelar.- Na Capital da Republica não temos outro tão bem organizado e conservado - O Diario de Medicina visita esse hospital da Irmandade da Candelaria que, não obstante ser de especialidade e o menos conhecido, é o melhor do Rio'. From Diario Med. , 13-2-1926. 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][Brazil]
1926
São Roque20 October - Inauguration. Director - Luiz Medeiros. (Araujo, H C S. 'A lepra e as organizações anti-leprosas do Brasil em 1936'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1937:32 (1) 150)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1926
Frank Oldrieve visited the West Indies and British Guiana. Several local branches of BELRA were formed, but with little practical result owing to lack of funds. The Foundation of the British Empire Lprosy Relief Association (BELRA) and its First Twenty-One Years of Work by Sir Leonard Rogers. London: British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, 1945. p 14.[Organisation][British Guiana, West Indies]
1926
Tai-Kam Colony8 stone buildings and one 3,000 ft long stone dike were completed. Source: Wang Eu-Kam, "Dr Wu Ting-Fang and the Tai-Kam leper colony", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 22-25, at p. 25.[Leprosarium][China]
1926
Lazarópolis do PrataRangel, M. 'A prophylaxia da lepra no Brasil - O Lazaropolis do Prata no Pará'. From Rev. Med. Cir. Brasil , 1926:34 (11) 442. 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][Brazil]
1926
Tocunduba258 patients in total at end of year: sixty-four admitted; ten dismissed; sixty-one died. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1933:27 (3))[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1926
Seventy-six people were confined in the lazaret on Peel Island, Queensland, and seventeen new cases with leprosy were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1926 , (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street).[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1926
Pakhoi CMS Leper AsylumPakhoi C.M.S. Leper Hospital Statistics for 1926. Number of patients in hospital January 1, 1926: 107 Number of patients admitted during 1926: 3 Number of patients discharged: 6 Number of patients died: 3 Number of patients in hospital January 1, 1927: 101 (59 male, 42 female) Total number of injections given: 6793 (4443 to men, 2359 to women) Number of out-patients for injections: 10 Number of injections given to out-patients: 159 Number of out-patients after treatment: 39 Total number of out-patients' visits: 198 Number of baptisms during 1926: 17 Number of lepers in hospital already baptised: 87. Source: J. A. Lee, "The latest news about the Pakhoi leper hospital", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 29-32, at p. 32.[Leprosarium][China]
1926
Santo ÂngeloSoares, J C M. 'Prophylaxia da lepra. Leprosario de Santo Angelo.- Conferencia realisada na Sociedade de Medicina e Cirurgia de S. Paulo, em 1-2-1926'. S. Paulo, 1926, 15. 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][Brazil]
1926
São Francisco de AssisThree patients admitted.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1926
"… at Culion in the Philippines, H W Wade and C B Lara reported 6,000 cases treated in 1921 to November 1926, with 629 recoveries, which with discharges to the end of 1926, would reach over 800. As the result of this unique experience, they concluded that the modern treatment is decidedly superior to the older ones, especially in early cases, and they continued: 'Though they are admittedly much less effective on well-established, advanced cases, the results obtained in the Philippine Islands during the last few years show that a not inconsiderable proportion of such cases (probably 15 to 20 per cent) can be apparently cured if treated intensively, under proper conditions.'" "Recent Advance in the Treatment of Leprosy and its Bearing on Prophylaxis" The Practitioner (April 1928)[Epidemiology, People, Treatment][Philippines]
1926
Santo ÂngeloSouza, G H P. 'Exposição de motivos sobre o problema da prophylaxia da lepra no Estado de São Paulo.- Annexo do officio n. 682, de 26 de Dezembro de 1925, da directoria geral do Serviço Sanitario, dirigido a S. Excia. o Sr. Dr. José Manoel Lobo, Secretario de Estado dos Negocios do Interior de São Paulo'. Monograph. S. Paulo, 1926. 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][Brazil]
1926
JesushilfeSister Elizabeth Müller left the hospital in 1923, after 33 years of faithful service. In 1924, the Danish nurse, Oggeline Noergaard, was appointed. Dr. Canaan continued to be the doctor in charge. In addition Dr. Shelly, ophthalmologist, worked in the hospital. According to Graibsky, in November 1926, there were 35 Moslem and 15 Christian patients. Five Sisters of Mercy worked there "under the supervision of the Brothers of Mercy of Herrnhut, which is in Silesia." Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal.[Leprosarium][Palestine]
1926
Nauru: In his report for 1926 [on the situation in Nauru], it was possible for the Medical officer to record that "results have, on the whole, been satisfactory. Eighteen cases required segregation during the year. Discharges from the Leper Station numbered 35." Source: C J Austin, Leprosy on the Island of Nauru , Noumea, South Pacific Commission, April 1952, p 2.[Epidemiology][Nauru, Pacific Islands]
1926
Santo ÂngeloPenna, B. 'O problema da lepra: X.- Em São Paulo - O autor affirma não haver nenhum inconveniente na installação do Leprosário de Sto. Angelo'. From O Correio da Manhã , Rio de Janeiro, 23-2-1926. 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][Brazil]
1926
Pulau JerejakDr H C de Souza Araujo noted that the population had arisen to 700. A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 40[Leprosarium][Malaysia]
1926
Kenya: By 1926, no site had been found for the proposed new settlement on the coast of Kenya, and the seetlements at Malindi and Lamo were considered unsatisfactory. Source: Leonard Rogers, "Leprosy Incidence and Control in East Africa, 1924-1952 and the Outlook" Leprosy Review 25.1 (1954): 41-59.[Epidemiology, People, Treatment][Africa, Kenya]
1926
Santo ÂngeloAlmeida, R. 'A lepra. Um ou muitos leprosarios? Santo Angelo'. From O Estado de São Paulo , Dezembro de 1926. 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][Brazil]
1926
Distribution of Hydnocarpus wightiana seed to colonies and H anthelmintica from Siam. Seeds were to be obtained from H Olesen, Siam Industries, Bankok, Siam. Source: "Tai Foong Chee Treatment", Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 12-13.[Treatment]
1926
Almora TLM Hospital and HomeIt was managed by the Methodist Episcopalian Church from 1926. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Cochrane visited Japan and Korea, then on his return to India was placed in charge of Bankura, Bengal.[People][India, Japan]
Dr J A Mitchell - Annual Report of the Department of Health in the Union of South Africa. Source: Leprosy Notes , 5 (1929): 6.[People][Africa]
1927
Pakhoi CMS Leper Asylum"This hospital is an extension of the C.M.S. General Hospital, which was founded by the late Dr. C. Horder in 1886. It is divided into two compounds - one for men and one for women - and situated on the western side of the General Hospital. The principal buildings in the Men's Compound comprise three large airy wards, a church, printing rooms, an operating theater, and a workshop. There are, besides, smaller buildings serving as kitchens, bathrooms, sick room, storerooms, lavatory, etc. The Women's Compound has two large wards and a church - all built parallel to one another. At present, in the two compounds, there are 58 males and 42 females. Within the Men's Compound occupations of various kinds are carried on. In the workshop is to be seen happy and contented lepers making baskets of all shapes and sizes, twining ropes, plaiting straw slippers, sawing wood, making brooms, etc. The products are consumed locally. All finished articles are sterilized before leaving the compound and a non-leper is engaged as salesman. There is also a printing department where Romanized, Chinese and English can be printed. Nearly all the printed matter of the Missions is done here. Formerly as an instrument for Christian propaganda work, this department has lately suspended part of its service, and at present only three or four workers are engaged. Gardening and lace making are the chief occupations of the female lepers. Lepers within the compounds, needless to say, are healthier than those without. The introduction of the latest forms of medical treatment is chiefly responsible for the improved state of health. Since the adoption of compulsory medical treatment, the death rate of lepers has markedly decreased. To many of the inmates the results so far obtained are greeted as the resurrection of hope." Source: James A Lee, "The Pakhoi Leper Hospital", The The Leper Quarterly , 1 (1927): 31.[Leprosarium][China]
KangpokpiAmerican Baptist Mission under charge of Dr Crozier (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Sudan: In his report "The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association: Statement Concerning Leprosy Work in British Colonies in Africa, with Special Reference to the Possibilities of the Situation from the Missionary Standpoint" to BELRA, Frank Oldrieve estimated that in a population of approximately 6,170,000 in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, there were 6,000 leprosy affected, and out of those, approximately 200 were being treated. The number of workers actually treating leprosy were four. The missionary societies working there were the CMS (in charge of Omdurman and with a treatment centre at Lui, in Southern Sudan, under Dr Fraser); the Sudan United Mission (at Melut on the Nile, under Dr Trudinger); and the American Mission (at Nasser).[Epidemiology, Organisation, People][Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Egypt]