Purulia, Chota NagporePurulia was visited by the Leprosy Commission in 1890[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Spanish government begins planning and appropriations in the Philippines for a colony-wide leprosy control program based on compulsory segregation[Other][Philippines]
1890
RangoonVisit by Wellesley Bailey Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891[Leprosarium][Burma]
1890
Purulia, Chota NagporeWellesley Bailey visited Purulia in 1890. Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Amballa (Ambala)Amballa is mentioned in the report of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][India]
1890
A survey was conducted in 1890 in Malta to assess the size of the problem. Only 69 known cases of leprosy were identified, eight of which lived in Gozo. Only eleven cases were in an advanced stage of the disease and had admitted themselves to the Asylum for the Aged and Incurables, commonly known as the poor house. The greater number of cases in Malta came from rural areas, mainly Qormi and Mosta. Only one came from Valletta. Half the cases from Gozo were from Nadur. ( Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[Epidemiology][Malta]
1890
Moulmein Leper HomeVisit of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][Burma]
1890
TLM Hospital, NainiVisit of the Leprosy Commission Surgeon, J F Tuhoy[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Chamba State Leper AsylumVisit by Wellesley Bailey Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Kondhwa Budruk (Kondova Leper Home)Mentioned in the Diary of the Leprosy Commission: Poona - David Sassoon Infirm Asylum (1865) and Yerrowda Central Prison - where leper criminals are kept[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Moulmein Leper HomeVisit by Wellesley Bailey Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891[Leprosarium][Burma]
1890
BenaresVisit of the Leprosy Commission, W R Hooper, Secrole Dispensary[Leprosarium][India]
1890
RawalpindiVisit of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Belgaum Leprosy HospitalMentioned in the Diary of the Leprosy Commission: 2 asylums - one for men - one for women[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Thayetmyo (Thayetmo)Visit of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][Burma]
1890
LucknowVisit of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][India]
1890
RawalpindiVisit by Wellesley Bailey Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891[Leprosarium][India]
1890
Neyoor (Colachel)London Missionary Society work carried out by Dr and Mrs Fry. It is described has having "old leper huts" and soon to be the site of "The Charles Pease Memorial Home for Lepers" and the Charles Gurney Pease Memorial Home for Untainted Children. Bailey, W. The Lepers of Our Indian Empire: A Visit to Them in 1890-91 , London: John Shaw, 1891 (p. 57)[Leprosarium][India]
1890
PromeVisit of the Leprosy Commission[Leprosarium][Burma]
1891
Sehore"The Bombay Gazette, 17th July, 1891, reports the opening of the New Leper Asylum at Sehore, Bhopal, towards which Her Highness the Begum of Bhopal has contributed munificently, and has promised an annual grant of 4500 Rs. for the expenses of maintenance. The building will accommodate about 160 lepers. In his address, Surgeon-Major Dane frankly said, "We do not expect to cure these unfortunate people, as, notwithstanding the praises which are repeatedly being bestowed on some vaunted ‘certain cures’ there is no doubt that a cure for leprosy has still to be discovered." This benevolent lady, the Begum of Bhopal, Nawab Shahjeham, has been persuaded to extend vaccinations in her province, upon which she spends 5000 rupees yearly, employing 35 vaccinators, who performed 38,000 vaccinations last year, thus unwittingly spreading the fell disease at the point of the lancet, and helping to fill the wards of the hospital which her benevolence has established." William Tebb. The Recrudescence of Leprosy and its Causation. London, Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1893.[Leprosarium][India]
1891
Chaulmoogra used in St Louis Leper Hospital, Paris.[Treatment][Europe]
1891
126 244 leprosy patients were estimated in India in a population of 274 373 929, a prevalence of 0.50. Table 65.1: Information on Census and Leprosy Prevalence in India 1872 to 1931 in M D Gupte, "Leprosy: Epidemiology" in IADVL Textbook of Atlas of Dermatology vol 1 2nd ed, 2001.[Epidemiology][India]
1891
“It is certain that leprosy does not prevail in the north of China to anything like the extent to which it prevails in the south-eastern parts, and it is very probable that it occurs in the neighbourhood of Canton, Amoy, and adjacent districts, to a much greater extent than it does in any other parts of the Empire.” ((George Thin, Leprosy , London: Percival,1891: 52)[Epidemiology][China]
1891
“Leprosy is found throughout the whole Empire of China; that he [Jeremiassen] himself has seen it in all the sea-coast provinces from north to south; that the disease is found among all classes, but naturally most among the poor. He states that leprosy is generally considered contagious among the Chinese, but that lepers [sic] are often found living amongst the family during the first stage. … Leper villages are regularly established in different parts of the country. Generally near cities one or more lepers [sic] will be found outside the city wall; still they are not excluded from visiting the city, where one daily finds them going from house to house begging.” (The medical opinion of Dr Jeremiassen from Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers of the China Imperial Maritime Customs Service, from 1871 to 1882 , compiled by Surgeon-General Dr Gordon and cited in George Thin, Leprosy , London: Percival,1891: 55-6)[Other][China]
1891
Sholapur District, Maharashtra, India: 81 cases per 10,000 population. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer: Government of Maharashtra, Sholapur District (Revised edition). Bombay Gazetteers Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1977. 1st edn 1884. 2nd edn (rev): 1977. p. 791.[Epidemiology][India]
1891
Purulia, Chota NagporeBailey noted that Mr. & Mrs Uffman and Mr Kufernagel were superintendents at the Asylum. There is a photo of the asylum: Chota Nagpore. (p.121) The Lepers of Our Indian Empire , by Wellesley Bailey, London: Shaw, 1892.[Leprosarium][India]
1891
ManankavalyIn the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1891 (ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1891), an article "A Leper Colony in Madagascar: Shall it be Ours?" reported that "The Rev P G Peake, of Isoavina, Madagascar, in an affecting appeal to the Directors, states that from the time of his arrival in Madagascar, in 1870, he had always been aware that there were lepers [sic] in the province of Imerina, but so little was seen of them that, in common with most foreigners, he scarcely realised their existence. However, on his return last season he became painfully conscious of the serious extent of this fell disease. One of his most promising students, left under native instruction during his absence, after taking a second-class certificate when only half through his course, showed marked indications of the disease, and was at once asked to retire from the companionship of his fellows. He had in disappointment, shame, and self-horror spent his days and nights, for fifteen months, in tears over his sad fate. He had learned the trade of tin-smith previous to his becoming a student, so he has been furnished with tools and materials, and is now working in his seclusion, but he has great difficulty in disposing of his products. Another case was that of David, a college-trained man, who had once been an evangelist in the district. On the day after Mr Peake's arrival in Antananarivo, he received a letter from him urging him to use his influence to save him from being turned out of his little secluded home in the outskirts of the town to the east of our LMS College. He failed in his endeavours to prevent this, and David was turned out of his home without compensation, and is now in the hands of a native who professes to be able to cure him." (233) Peake wrote to the Foreign Secretary "I propose to begin in a very modest and moderate way by building twenty-four cottages, a small hospital, and small chapel. Five persons to each cottage would secure shelter for 120. These cottages, chapel, and hospital will not exceed 10 each, a maximum total of 260. I hope the Society and friends in England will send me that sum for so excellent a purpose" (235)[Leprosarium][Madagascar]
1891
Hospital dos Lazaros da BahiaRodrigues, N. 'A lepra no Estado da Bahia: Hospital de lazaros da Bahia.- Nota apresentada ao 3.º Cong. Med. Brasileiro, a proposito da distribuição geográfica da lepra no norte do Brazil'. Brasil Med. , 1891:5 (4) 31. 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]