20 October 1926 – Leprosarium São Roque was inaugurated. The institution is described as a ‘hospital-colonia’, and is located thirty kilometres from Curitiba. The State paid for its construction, and it was the second official leprosarium in Brazil. It had a capacity of 400 patients at the time that Souza Araujo was writing.
(Araujo, H C S. ‘A lepra e as organizações anti-leprosas do Brasil em 1936’. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz, 1937:32 (1) 150)