Area：Africa
Area：Africa
Country：Tanzania
Country：Tanganyika
This leprosarium was set up to ease the overcrowded nearby leprosarium at Makutupora.
The land had already been allocated by 23 June, 1961, when Dr ND Fraser made a tour of the area as Medical Secretary of The Mission to Lepers.
Source: ND Fraser, “A review of leprosy work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika”, Lep Rev, 33.2 (1962): 141-153; on p. 150 .