The "Ramakrishna Balakavikshu" was formed to look after vagrant leprosy patients at Cuttack.[Other][India]
1896
Mayurbhanj Leprosy HomeThe asylum was founded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][India]
1896
The first Seychelles legal ordinance to regulate the conduct of persons with leprosy allowed for the compulsory segregation of vagrant, convict or pauper sufferers. C R Grainger, ‘Leprosy in the Seychelles’, Lep Rev (1980), 51: 43-9.[Legislation]
1896
McLeod Road Leper ColonyA leprosarium was founded in Karachi, under the control of a local body. 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][Pakistan]
1896
MirajRichardson established leprosarium[Leprosarium][India]
1896
Hospital dos LázarosLima, A. 'Relatorio apresentado ao provedor do Hospital dos Lazaros'. Brasil Med. , 1896:10 (38) 341. 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]
1896
CarvilleDr Dyer and Mother Mariana contract an agreement for "the nursing of the patients and the household management" of the Louisiana Home. Four Catholic 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. ( http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm )[Leprosarium][USA]
1897
First International Leprosy Congress in Berlin. President: Rudolf Virchow; Vice-Presidents: Hansen and Lassar. This conference recognised skin and nasal discharge of bacilli, the contagiousness of leprosy, and it also recommended control of leprosy by segregation of patients with the disease. Source: International Journal of Leprosy: Centennial Festskrift, 1 1873-1973 .[Conference/Congress, People][Europe]
1897
Chandkuri Leprosy Hospital and HomeFounded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 and 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]
1897
Italy: 167 cases in 24 provinces.[Epidemiology][Europe]
1897
Victoria Leper HomeFounded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 and the 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]
1897
1897-1902 - First observations of leprosy in state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by doctor and researcher, Von Bassewitz, in Alegrete. (Velloso, A P & Andrade, V. Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002)[Epidemiology][Brazil]
1897
Russia: The special commission appointed by Baron Vrevski, Governor-General of Russian Turkestan, reports that there are one hundred and sixty-eight persons afflicted with leprosy in that province, and in Bokhara four hundred and thirteen. This number is much lower than the reports of recent travellers would lead one to suppose, and appears to indicate that the disease is dying out. The Russian Red Cross Society has decided to erect an isolated central lazaretto for leprous persons in the neighbourhood of Tashkent. Source: The Nursing Record and Hospital World , 19 (11 Dec, 1897): 479.[Epidemiology][Russia]
1897
KalaupapaThe leper Island of Molokai', from Lancet , 1897:75 (2) 888. 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][Hawaii]
1897
São LázaroHospital de S. Lazaro.- Abril 10 de 1845.- Lei mineira determinando a creação de um hospital na província com a denominação de S. Lázaro'. Reproduction of Ephemérides Mineiras - 1664-1897 by J P Xavier da Veiga. Ouro Preto, 1897:2, 47. 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., 1897:2, 47.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1897
Albert Victor Leper AsylumAn amendment scheme for the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum was submitted by the government solicitor in March 1897 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1897
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIt was established that the order of the 18th of May, 1894, which required that medicines and medical stores be obtained through private agency for the asylum was still in force. The Government of India was asked to include the asylum in its list of institutions which were able to indent government medical stores. It was also decided that menial servants employed in the asylum be treated as whole time servants of the government in order to obtain a grant of compensation for the cost of food West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1897
St Joseph’s Leprosy Hospital, Mangalore, founded in India.[Other][India]
1897
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn April 1897, a grant of a permanent advance of R100 was made to the Superintendent of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum to meet the petty charges of the institution West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1897
Finland: 67 cases .026 per mille (Rogers 19).[Epidemiology][Europe]
1897
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn March 1897, a payment of R150 a month was scantioned to be made to the Superintendent of the alms house, for the performance of the clerical work of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
VilyuyskThe leprosy hospital was founded, using monies raised by Kate Marsden.[Leprosarium][Russia]
1898
Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Annual Sanitation report mentions a visit by a German Plague Commissioner[Leprosarium][India]
1898
KilwaAn asylum was set up at Kilwa by the colonial government.[Leprosarium][German East Africa]
1898
Belgaum Leprosy HospitalLepers Act - this was applied in September 1912 The Government purchased land for a leper asylum "Rehoboth" situated near Hindalge near Belgaum at which The Leprosy Mission undertook the management and upkeep[Leprosarium][India]
1898
RaipurFounded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 and the 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]
1898
KalaupapaCarmichael, D A, 'Report on leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, November 29, 1898, by US MHS surgeon'. From Pub. Health Rep. , 1898:13 (52) 1543. 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][Hawaii]
1898
Nasik Leper AsylumFounded. 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]
1898
Indian Lepers’ Act passed. Source: Dongre, The History of Leprosy in India : 79.[Legislation][India]