MuuliMuuli at the University of Tartu was founded in 1891. (P Parmakson, "Statistic Reports on Leprosy in Estonia", IJL 6 (1938):185-198)[Leprosarium][Estonia]
1891
Purulia, Chota NagporeA grant of Rs. 100 per annum was made to the leprosy asylum, Purulia West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1891
Lazaretto, Black RockA Lazaretto Land Plan dated 1891 from the Public Works Office shows a single building divided into male and female quarters, a kitchen, seclusion cells, wash stand, baths, a water tank, a superintendent's house and land planned or proposed for purchase. (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from the Barbados Museum and Archives)[Leprosarium][West Indies]
1891
Hangchow Leper Hospital"In 1891 a separate building for males was erected in a corner of the CMS Hospital compound." Source: Phyllis Haddow and Stephen D Sturton, 'Hangchow', in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 789.[Leprosarium][China]
1891
Homes for LepersFounded[Leprosarium][Burma]
1892
South Africa: The Government passed a directive that all persons with leprosy be segregated on Robben Island. Source: "The Story of Robben Island, told by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.C.S.", The Nursing Record and Hospital World June 2, 1900, pp 441-2 .[Legislation][Africa]
1892
ManankavalyThe Rev Philip Peake took it upon himself to start a leper hospital at Isoavina in 1892, and assisted by friends in Britain and the Malagasy Government, which donated the land, he built thirteen cottages. He struggled with financial problems until the LMS directors finally agreed to give him the necessary funds for a leprosy hospital. (Ibonar A Gow, Madagascar and the Protestant Impact: The Work of the British Missions, 1818-95 (Longman & Dalhousie UP, 1979): 141)[Leprosarium][Madagascar]
1892
LungegaardsThis was identified as one of the two hospitals visited and described by 'Shamrock', in "Notes by the Wayside", The Nursing Record , 9 (1892): 693-6 and 827-8 . Dr DC Danelssen took issue with Shamrock's account, and responded in an article entitled "Leper Hospitals in Norway", which was immediately met with a riposte by "Shamrock" in The Nursing Record , 9 (1892): 935-6 . PDF copies of these articles are freely available online from the Royal College of Nursing archives .[Leprosarium][Norway]
1892
St Jørgen HospitalThis was identified as one of the two hospitals visited and described by 'Shamrock', in "Notes by the Wayside", The Nursing Record , 9 (1892): 693-6 and 827-8 . Dr DC Danelssen took issue with Shamrock's account, and responded in an article entitled "Leper Hospitals in Norway", which was immediately met with a riposte by "Shamrock" in The Nursing Record , 9 (1892): 935-6 . PDF copies of these articles are freely available online from the Royal College of Nursing archives .[Leprosarium][Norway]
1892
Robben IslandThe Government passed a directive that all persons with leprosy be segregated on Robben Island. Source: "The Story of Robben Island, told by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.C.S.", The Nursing Record and Hospital World June 2, 1900, pp 441-2 .[Leprosarium][South Africa]
1892
St John's Leper AsylumFounded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][Burma]
1892
Raj Kumari Leper AsylumThe asylum was founded. Source: Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 58.[Leprosarium][India]
1892
Ziferino Falcao (Portugal), at the International Congress of Dermatology, held that in most cases "the first symptom of leprosy is rhinitis … Not seldom, the perforations of the septum may constitute for a very long time, the sole symptom." He found Hansen's bacillus in rubbings from septal mucos. As a consequence the concept of leprosy transmission through the nasal mucosa became widespread.[Conference/Congress, Treatment][Europe]
1893
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn October 1893, a report of the Committee for the Leprosy Asylum, Calcutta proposed the removal of the asylum to Manicktola. A petition from Babu Joy Gobinda Law and the residents of ward no. 4 protested against its retention in Amherst Street West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1893
Manankavaly"Destruction of the Leper Chapel Madagascar" "... as early as the middle of 1891, I had secured a large piece of land, nearly three quarters of a mile long by about the same in breadth, and commenced building thirteen cottages, trusting to the willingness of good people to help in good time. We were not, however, fortunate in getting the buildings sufficiently advanced before the rains set in, and they were left for the building season. But last April we prepared plans for twenty-five cottages, a hospital, a house for visitors, and a chapel; and we were well into the work again by the end of May, and before the rainy season had well set in all the buildings were roofed in with tiles, and we hoped to be able to open our doors to such as were looking forward and longing for admission after Christmas, when we expected to hold a dedication service in the chapel. These plans, however have been rudely set aside by the most destructive cyclone which has ever swept over this country within the memory of the oldest living natives. It took place on January 29th. Besides taking off part of the roof of the mission house, the entire roof of our girl’s schoolhouse, and destroying the class room of the boy’s school here, five chapels in the district were leveled to the ground; ... our beautiful new chapel, with its tiled roof, coloured walls, and glass windows, in the leper village, in which we hoped many hearts would be gladdened by the message of mercy and love, was laid waste by the rage of the terrible storm." P G Peake. Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1893 (ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1893):149-[Leprosarium][Madagascar]
1893
JesushilfeIn 1893 a children’s section was opened for the healthy children of affected parents. Medical treatment, in the new building, was directed by Dr. Einsler. It is not known when he replaced his predecessor, Dr. Chaplin. At all events, the latter left his position at the English Hospital in 1886 on health grounds, presumably he was then also relieved of his duties at the hospital for leprosy patients. Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal.[Leprosarium][Palestine]
1893
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Founded. Sources: i) League of Nations Archive: File 29098. ii) Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 58.[Leprosarium][India]
1893
Iceland proposal for leper asylums voted down. (Ehlers, quoted in Rogers 17).[Other][Europe]
1893
Hospital dos Lazaros da BahiaVianna, F V & Ferreira, J C. 'Hospitaes, enfermerias, casa de saude, asylos e cemiterios.- Hospitaes: 2.- O dos lazaros'. Extract from book, Memoria sobre o Estado da Bahia - Written by order of Exmo. Sr. Dr. Joaquim Manuel Rodrigues Lima, Governor of the State of Bahia. Bahia, 1893, 355. 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]
1893
Hospital dos LázarosLima, A. 'Sur l'hôpital de lépreux de Rio de Janeiro'. Ann. Dermat. et Syph. , 1893:4 (3rd Series) 228. 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]
1893
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn October, a petition was received from the president of the District Charitable Society asking to be relieved of the charge of maintaining the Leprosy Asylum, Calcutta, and suggesting to the Honorary Secretary of the Prince Albert Victor Memorial Committee that the asylum be over to the government and the funds be placed in the hands of the Committee West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1894
CarvilleThe first seven patients, five men and two women, are transported from New Orleans by river barge to what is then a deserted Indian Camp Plantation. The Louisiana State Legislature, with Dr Isadore Dyer, a dermatologist and leprologist from Tulane University medical school, establishes the Control Board for the Louisiana Leper Home at Carville, Louisiana, "a place of refuge, not reproach; a place of treatment and research, not detention." http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm[Leprosarium][USA]
1894
Albert Victor Leper AsylumProposal was made to place the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum on the list of institutions which had the privilege of indenting on the government medical stores department for medicines and medical stores, in August 1894, West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1894
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn Feburary 1894, a resolution was made to take over the management of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum from the District Charitable Society West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1894
BoneIn the results of a survey published in the Annales d’Hygiène et de Médecine Navale, 1894 , Grall gives the earliest information on the origin of the disease at Maré and at Lifou. Around 1880, a protestant teacher returned to Guama (Maré) infected with leprosy, after spending several years in New Guinea. From Guama the disease spread to Tawaïnèdre. (Médecin-Capitaine des Troupes Coloniales Lacour, An Attempt to Control Leprosy by BCG Vaccine in the Loyalty Islands , (South Pacific Commission, 1954)[Leprosarium][New Caledonia]
1894
OnéThe first case on Ouvéa was recorded in 1894, being a native from Pouebo (New Caledonia). (Médecin-Capitaine des Troupes Coloniales Lacour, An Attempt to Control Leprosy by BCG Vaccine in the Loyalty Islands , (South Pacific Commission, 1954)[Leprosarium][New Caledonia]
1894
Iceland: visited by Ehlers who inspected 158 lepers[Other][Europe]
1894
Taluka Mahad (TLM Trust Hospital Poladpur)Founded. Source: Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 58.[Leprosarium][India]
1894
Chaulmoogra used as an injection in Egypt (Feeny) Photos of chaulmoogra, including use as injection .[Treatment][Africa]
1894
LucknowEstablished. Source: Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 59.[Leprosarium][India]