During December 1964, the Cuttack station of AIR broadcasted a talk by Dr Jayadev Sahu on the prevention of leprosy.[People][India]
1964
In 1964, 736 people were register as having leprosy in the Northern Territory; 542 in Western Australia; 186 in Queensland; 16 in New South Wales; 14 in Victoria; 1 in South Australia; ine in Tasmania; and a total of 1,496 in Australia.[Epidemiology, Treatment][Australasia]
1964
In 1964-65, in a collaborative project with the British Medical Institute in London, Dr R J W Rees and Dr John H S Pettit provided definite proof of dapsone resistance in three patients in Sungai Buluh using the mouse foot-pad inoculation method. A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983), p. 8[Treatment][Malaysia]
1964
The leprosaria on San Antâo and Fogo (Cape Verde) were closed. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48, p. 339.[Other][Africa]
1964
Ethiopia: Mobile clinics were employed in the anti-leprosy campaign with the aim of providing local treatment for as many patients as possible, as early in the disease as possible. Source: S. G. Browne, "Leprosy in the Community", Lep Rev , 45 (1974): 78-82; on p. 79.[Treatment][Africa, Ethiopia]
1964
Goa, India: a Leprosy Control Programme was launched in the district in 1964. This programme aimed to provide early detection, and treatment of those afflicted by leprosy in their homes. It further sought to control the disease through survey, detection of early cases and mass treatment with sulphone. One leprosy control Unit was set up at Panaji. Its jurisdiction extended over the Taluks of Bardez and Tiswadi. During the year, the Leprosy Control Unit at Panaji surveyed a population of 75,147. During the same year 41 new cases were detected and 113 cases were registered for treatment. Throughout the district 20 Survey, Education and Treatment centres were also set up. Source: Gazetteer of the Union Territory: Goa, Daman and Diu District Gazetteer, Part 1: Goa. Ed. Dr V T Gun. Panaji: Gazetteer Department, Gov of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, 1979, p. 724.[Other][India]
1964
National Leprosy Campaign ends in Brazil, transferring responsibility for leprosy control from national to state level. (Velloso, A P & Andrade, V. Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002)[Other][Brazil]
1964
Sungai BulohIn 1964-1965, in a collaborative project with the British Medical Research Institute in London, Dr R J W Rees and Dr John H S Pettit provided definite proof of dapsone resistance in three patients in Sungai Buloh, using the mouse footpad inoculation method. A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future , ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 8-9[Leprosarium][Malaysia]
1964
Pettit & Rees report the first cases of resistance to dapsone, the only known anti-leprosy drug at the time. (From LEPRA website: http://www.lepra.org.uk/milestones.html)[Treatment]
1964
FogoThe leprosaria on San Antâo and Fogo (Cape Verde) were closed. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48, p. 339.[Leprosarium][Cape Verde]
1964
Controlled BCG trial for leprosy prophylaxis begun in Burma (WHO)[Treatment]
1964
San AntâoThe leprosaria on San Antâo and Fogo (Cape Verde) were closed. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48, p. 339.[Leprosarium][Cape Verde]
1964
From February to June 1964, Dr F Hammerickjx toured Orissa.[People][India]
1964
St Elizabeth's"Report on Leprosy Work for the Year of 1964 at Ndanda Leprosarium, Tanzania.", Lep Rev , 37 (1966): 131-132. This gives general quantitative information on the in-patients. It notes that: 'On December 31st, 1964 there were 56 more patients resident than on the same date the previous year - the highest number of in-patients ever." On this date, there were 628 in-patients, of whom 299 were lepromatous and 329 tuberculoid. The majority of in-patients (335) were adult males. 584 of the 628 patients were being treated with sulphones.[Leprosarium][Tanzania]
1964
On September 1, 1964, the Health Education Unit at Khurda Road was opened by the Ghandi Memorial Leprosy Foundation.[Other][India]
1965
1965 report of Hind Kusht Nivaran Sang (Indian Leprosy Association) Madras State Branch gives a complete account of the leprosy work carried out in Madras State: I activities; II reports from district branches; III reports from local sanatoria and institutes; IV Government Leprosy Control Work; and V reports from voluntary institutions. Voluntary institutions working with the Hind Kusht Nivaran Sang at this time are as follows: Leprosy Centre Polambakkam; German Leprosy Centre, Chetput; Sacred Heart Hospital, Kumbakonam; Swedish Red Cross Leprosy Campaign, Karagiri; St Joseph’s Leprosy Home, Tuticorin; Schieffelin Leprosy Sanatorium, Karigiri ( Photos of Karigiri ); Kaasthurba Kusht Nivaran Nilayam, Malavanthangal; Swedish Mission Hospital, Tiruppattur; Dayapuram Hospital and Homes, Manamadurai; Church of South India Leprosy Centre, Chettipatty; St Anthony’s Leprosy Centre, Ruthakuppam; St Mary’s Hospital, Arsipalayam.[Other][India]
1965
Government work taking place in conjunction with the Hind Kusht Nivaran Sang (Indian Leprosy Association) is recorded in the annual report as the National Leprosy Control Scheme; Tirukoilur Study and Treatment Centre; thirty-five SET units functioning in the State; Wallajah Taluk Leprosy Relief and Control Scheme; and the Madras Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute at Chingleput[Other][India]
1965
Thalidomide introduced for the treatment of lepra reaction[Treatment]
1965
First symposium under Bombay University in a Medical College (Dongre, ILA History Workshop, July 2000, 8)[Other][India]
1965
Inauguration of Referral Hospital in GMLF by the President of India (Dongre, ILA History Workshop, July 2000, 8)[Other][India]
1965
By the end of the year, the government opened 22 SET centres in Orissa.[Other][India]
1965
On July 31, 1965, Dr R V Wardekar visited Orissa for a week.[People][India]
1965
Central Leprosy Clinic and Leprosy Control Project established. Source: Janet Jones, 'Issues in Leprosy and Social Isolation - a Case Study from Nepal', Ph.D. thesis, University of Derby, 2006, p. 179.[Other][Nepal]
1965
Lady Willingdon SettlementRamanujam (Central Leprosy Institute Chingleput) publishing on long-acting sulphones.[Leprosarium][India]
1965
Lady Willingdon SettlementDharmendra and Noordeen and Ramanujam working on the Prophylactic Value of DDS (Chingleput)[Leprosarium][India]
1965
Leprosy Workers Conference in Madras[Conference/Congress][India]
1966
Ridley and Jopling's classification[Publication]
1966
Formation of ELEP (European Coordination Committee of the Anti-Leprosy Association)[Organisation]
1966
The Danish Leprosy Control Project was established at Aska in the Ganjam district.[Other][India]
1966
The WHO Guide to Leprosy Control (1966): 2808 registered cases of leprosy in Peru (0.24 per 1000) and 7000 estimated total cases (0.61 per 1000). Total population of Peru: 11,511,000. Cited by: Colin McDougall, 'Leprosy in Peru', Leprosy Review, 42 (1972): 197-202, at p. 198.[Epidemiology][Peru]