1894 - Louisiana meets the challenge of providing care for leprosy patients. The first seven patients 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."[Other][Carville, North America]
1894
The first leprosy autopsy series included 125 cases. (Hansen, G A and Looft, C Die Lepra vom klinschen und pathologisch Standpunkt ). This was later extended by Mitsuda and Ogawa, 1937; Black, 1938; Kean and Childress, 1942; Powell and Schwan, 1955; Junnarkar, 1957; Bernard, 1936; Desikan and Job, 1968; Bernard, 1973.[Treatment]
1894
IhaienOhtani writes that Ihaien was established by "the Kozensha in what was then the village of Meguro in Tokyo through the charitable efforts of Mr and Mrs Shoshin Ohtsuka, who were assisted by an English charity, the East India Leprosy Relief Association." (48)[Leprosarium][Japan]
1894
Hospital dos LázarosPinheiro, F B M. 'Hospital dos lázaros'. Chapter 4 of book, Irmandade do Santissimo Sacramento da Freguezia de Nossa Senhora da Candelária e suas Repartições, Côro, Caridade e Hospital dos Lázaros , Rio de Janeiro, 1894:2. 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]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn July 1895, a deputy commissioner of police, Calcutta, was appointed to be ex-officio secretary to the committee of management of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn July 1895, a board for the control and supervision of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum was formed West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn July 1895, an order was made declaring the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum to be an asylum under section 3 of the act v (b.c.) of 1895, and directing the removal there of all lepers found within the limits of the Calcutta municipality as defined by act iii of 1888, the Cossipore-Chitpur Municipality, the Manicktola Municipality, the south suburban municipality, the Howrah Municipality and within the Cantonment of Fort William West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn July 1895, His Grace, the Archbishop of Calcutta, proposed a prayer and reading room for the Christians with leprosy in the building under construction at the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn January 1895, a report was made to the President of the Committee for the Management of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum on the proposal to remove the vagrants who occupied the Alms House to a Vagrant Ward in the Presidency Jail, as well as housing the Female Lepers in the premises occupied by the vagrants West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumA proposal was made to raise the grant made by the government to the Leprosy Asylum, Calcutta from Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 3,000 in July West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Purulia, Chota NagporeA proposal was made to declare the existing mission to be an asylum under section 3 of Act V of 1895 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
1895-7: South Russia 0.02-0.23 per mille (1200 cases). (quoted in Rogers 19).[Epidemiology][Russia]
1895
Robben IslandA report produced by the Leprosy Commission at Cape Town recommended a change to the policy of obligatory segregation for all persons with leprosy, and suggested that 'lepers of means' should be allowed to remain on the mainland under supervision. The Nursing Record and Hospital World , May 25, 1895 (page 362).[Leprosarium][South Africa]
1895
Kaishun HospitalKaishun Hospital was founded by the English missionary, Hannah Riddel (Lutheran). It was located in Kumamoto City in Kumamoto Prefecture.[Leprosarium][Japan]
1895
Taluka RohaThe asylum was founded.[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn January 1895, a committee was appointed to inspect and comment upon a site at Gobra situated within the Calcutta municipality for the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
Gutian Leprosarium" THE MARTYRS WORK AMONG LEPERS One of the most important branches of the work of the murdered missionaries was among the lepers, to whom every attention was paid. By means of help supplied by the society for the evangelisation of lepers an asylum capable of holding 48 was erected at Ku-Cheng during the year 1893. In a church close at hand a congregation of between 30 and 40 lepers, of whom 29 were baptized, met for worship. An old man, himself a leper, whose ministrations among these poor sufferers were referred to in the annual reports of the church Missionary Society for 1891-2, died during last year." Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1895. Cited in Ian Welch (ed) (2006) "Letters and press reports relating to the massacre of eleven British missionaries at Huashan (Huasang) Fujian (Fukien) Province China, 1 August, 1895." http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/china/welch_banister2006.pdf[Leprosarium][China]
1895
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn July 1895, certain medical officers were appointed to be inspectors of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1895
MalungaFounded. Source: Janet Jones, 'Issues in Leprosy and Social Isolation - a Case Study from Nepal', Ph.D. thesis, University of Derby, 2006, p. 178.[Leprosarium][Nepal]
1896
Cuttack Leper HospitalIn 1896, Sri Krishna Chandra Sengupta, a teacher from Bengal in the staff of the Pyarimohan Academy, organised a group of students of his school under the banner of Ramakrishna Balaka Vikshu. The teacher, with his band of students, used to collect alms from door to door to feed the beggars suffering from leprosy. The organisation continued its activities at Cuttack up to 1924. (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989: 18)[Leprosarium][India]
1896
Richardson Leprosy Hospital established in Miraj, India.[Other][India]
1896
Pakhoi CMS Leper Asylum"The CMS Leper Asylum was founded by the late Dr E C Horder in 1896. It is divided into two compounds, one for men and one for women, and situated on the western side of the general hospital, about 40 feet away and is separated by a wall of ten feet in height. The principal buildings in the men's compound comprise three large airy dormitories, a chapel, a printing house, a dressing room, and a workshop. There are other small buildings serving as kitchen, bathroom, sickroom, store-room etc. The women's compound has three buildings, two for dormitories and one chapel, besides other smaller outhouses. The two compounds enclose an area of 60,990 sq ft." Source: S Y Sing and P Z Sun, 'The CMS Leper Asylum, Pakhoi, South China' in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 778.[Leprosarium][China]
1896
Iceland: 226 lepers (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Epidemiology][Europe]
1896
Manankavaly"The Faithfulness of the Christian Leper" Two or three miles away from Ambatovory is a large piece of ground granted by the good Queen to the Rev P G Peake, for the purpose of forming a village for those afflicted by that terrible disease, leprosy. Here a number of cottages had been erected, a neat little church built, and hundreds of trees planted for fruit and shade. A few weeks ago the rebels attacked this place, wrecked the church, cut down almost all the trees, and stole the year's store of rice which had been provided for the inmates. Since then a few of the poor people have ventured to return, and to these, three or four days ago, Mr Peake sent a supply of money through a trustworthy man, himself a leper [sic], but formerly, before he was attacked by the disease, an evangelist. His name is David, and he has acted as superintendent and teacher at the leprosy village. But, by some means or other, the rebels, or rather the ruffianism of the neighbourhood got to know of this money being sent out. They seized poor David, stole his money,stripped him of his clothing, and then demanded that he should swear to become one of them - in other words to renounce his Christianity and return to heathenism. But the good man refused utterly to do this; and then the wretches brutally murdered him, cutting off his head and afterwards burning his body. Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1893 (ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1893): 261[Leprosarium][Madagascar]
1896
French Commission.[Other][Europe]
1896
AmbohipiantranaEn 1896, elle hospitalisait plus se 120 malades, et un nouveau local spécial de 16 lits venait d’être créé. De vastes terrains contigus aux bâtiments avaient été mis en valeur par les lépreux et produisaient les denrées nécessaires a leur alimentation. Depuis la fondation, la direction de l’établissement a toujours été assurée par M le pasteur Rossas. Des soins médicaux y sont donnés par M le docteur Ebbell ; enfin deux dames diaconesses sont chargées des soins aux malades et de l’administration intérieure. Ainsi fonctionnait la léproserie norvégienne d’Antsirabe lorsque le gouvernement de la colonie, voulant combattre méthodiquement le mal dans toute les parties de l’île, décida la création de léproseries officielles. Celle d’Ambohipiantrana possédant des installations toutes créées et parfaitement comprises, le gouvernement entama des pourparlers avec la Mission Norvégienne, en vue de faire de son établissement la léproserie définitive de la région du Vakinankaratra. Ces négociations ont abouti ; elles ont fait l’object d’une convention singée le 15 Août dernier, aux termes de laquelle la Mission Norvégienne s’engage, moyennant une subvention de 40 Frs par an et par malade, à hospitaliser tous les lépreux de la province, soit environ 600.(G S Chapus, Antsirabe, Passé, Présent, Avenir , (Tananarive: Imprimerie Lutherienne, 1951)[Leprosarium][Madagascar]
1896
1896 - Dr. Dyer and Mother Mariana Flynn, Visitatrix of the American Province of the Daughters of Charity, contract an agreement for, "the nursing of the patients and the household management," of the Louisiana Home. Four Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul from Emmitsburg, Maryland arrive to provide care for the patients at the Louisiana Home under the leadership and charge of Sister Beatrice Hart[Other][Carville, North America]
1896
KuudaKuuda was founded in 1896 (P Parmakson, "Statistic Reports on Leprosy in Estonia", IJL 6 (1938):185-198)[Leprosarium][Northern Estonia]
1896
The Maharaja of Mayurbhan opened a home for the vagrant leprosy patients.[Other][India]
1896
Isle Curieuse (Curieuse Island)The first Seychelles legal ordinance to regulate the conduct of persons with leprosy allowed for the compulsory segregation of vagrant, convict or pauper sufferers. CR Grainger, ‘Leprosy in the Seychelles’, Lep Rev (1980), 51: 43-9.[Leprosarium][Seychelles]