At the time of ND Fraser’s visit in mid-1961, the leprosarium had 1,200 patients, and was being run by Miss Preston, with assistance from Dr Wellesley Hannah and Mrs and Mrs Leach.
Fraser observed:
There were 16 women in the 6 bed women’s ward; 10 men in the men’s ward with 3 more on the verandah; 12 with ulcerated feet in special cottages nearby. There were 40 in the women’s lines, 110 in the men’s lines, 30 boys and 30 girls.
The additional 0ut-patients consisted of 500 former patients who had settled beyond Sukamahela and in the Rift Valley, many of whom had ‘relapsed and appear to be resistant to further DDS treatment’, and 150 healthy partners and 300 children of patients or former patients.
Source: ND Fraser, “A review of leprosy work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika”, Lep Rev, 33.2 (1962): 141-153; on pp. 149-50.
BELRA/LEPRA workers associated with this leprosarium:-
Dr Cyril Wallace, doctor, 1944
Miss Faith Ward, nurse (Australian CMS), 1950-1952
Mr J Williams, lay worker, 1953
Miss Bangham, welfare, 1953
Mr Wally Leach, lay worker, 1955-1963
Information supplied by LEPRA