Law providing for the compulsory segregation of people with leprosy and for all government officers with police powers to arrest and apprehend those with leprosy passed[Other][Philippines]
1907
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Payment of Rs. 7,062 was made from Provincial Revenues for certain improvements to the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1907
Albert Victor Leper AsylumA decision was made in Feburary 1907 that correspondence about the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum be submitted through the Inspector General of the civil hospitals, Bengal West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1907
BhagalpurIn December 1907, a capitation grant was made to Bhagalpur, which was maintained by the Mission to Lepers in India and the East West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1907
Sixty-five cases with leprosy in Queensland were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1907-8, ( Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street). Six were admitted to the lazaret in Moreton Bay and 40 were removed from Friday Island to Peel Island.[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1907
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Plans and estimates of the additional works required for the Raniganj leprosy asylum were requried West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1907
Albert Victor Leper AsylumThe boundary of the quarters of the Superintendent of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum at Gobra were demarcated at an estimated cost of R 37. Funds were provided for meeting the costs West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1907
Raj Kumari Leper AsylumA complaint was made against the Leprosy Asylum, Deoghar by the Reverend Henry M Bleby, the President of the Leper Asylum at Raniganj, regarding laxity in the segregation of those with leprosy in the asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A proposal was made to declare the Raniganj leprosy asylum an asylum for the purposes of the Leper’s Act III of 1898 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Albert Victor Leper AsylumAn additional grant of R4552 was made in September to the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum to meet certain expenditure West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Government orders directed the Commissioner to forward the diplomas of Babu John Singh, Medical Officer of the Raniganj leprosy asylum, for inspection of the Inspector General of Civil Hospitals West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Moulmein Leper HomeIn a survey of leprosaria in 1931 it was reported that Moulmein was founded in 1908. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][Burma]
1908
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn December 1908, a proposal was made for the construction of a separate ward for the leper lunatics at the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum, and the inspector general of civil hospitals was asked to furnish certain information if the ward were to be built West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A grant was made during the current financial year of the balance of Rs. 1,262 and Rs. 2,320 of the 2 grants sanctioned previously for improvements of the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Bagida ColonyBy April 1908 there were only fourteen patients in the far too generously-planned facility. The Medical Report for Togo had to admit that the patients felt their isolation as a hardship, and saw no improvement in their suffering … and would therefore always take themselves off to the interior again. The memoranda described more benignly the tendencies of the leprosy victims to escape, saying that the inmates "generally did not gladly remain in the facility". A more decisive attitude than the former liberal approach to coming and going was officially pronounced, in which it was forbidden for patients and suspects to leave their section. Possibly the ordinance to reduce freedoms was intended more to impress those in Berlin than it could those in Bagida. In the colonial periphery one was more inclined to supervise the isolation with as much encouragement as possible, since living conditions or inmates were thoroughly liberal; thus the distant doctor in Lome could grant healthy visitors or perhaps mothers a short-term or longer-term stay in the leprosy village "to care for of the little child". The sick and suspects were given a mat, towel, blanket, mosquito net, cooking pot and bowl. Only those too ill to work were given a daily allowance of 20 pence a day - the others received nothing as they were expected to harvest food from their farms, and give up their earnings from excess production for the other inmates, against minimal payment for the upkeep of the village. Any infringements of regulations by those able to work were punished by farmwork and work for the overall needs of the village. A nurse, assisted by a guard, kept records of supervision of the village, of medications, numbers of inmates, of payments made. Efforts to treat patients with Nastin, and with the herbal extracts Chaulmoogra oil and Balsamum Gurguni were unsuccessful, so that medical attention was limited to observations and symptomatic treatments. The stringent criteria laid down for total cures showed a long-term optimisim - there was not a single case of a cure. From 1908, the number of village residents grew to 38, hardly worthy of a claim of success. The occasional distribution of "treats" such as tobacco and sugar had no effect on the inmates’ passive resistance to carrying out the necessary farm work. The doctor and administrative officers were helpless in the face of the pressure by the sick to visit their healthy relatives . Under such conditions, attempts at treatment were destined to fail. Nastin was said at first to have shown some signs of the retreat of the disease, but a year later was reported to have had no effects on symptoms; it had, however, had life-threatening side effects in only one case and was well tolerated by children. (Translated and summarised from Wolfgang U Eckart, Medizin and Kolonialimperialismus: Deutschland 1884-1945 pp 152-161)[Leprosarium][Togo]
1908
Albert Victor Leper AsylumThe allowance of the civil hospital assistant attached to the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum was increased from R20 to R25 and the pay of the 14 menial servants was increased in July 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A grant of a further advance of Rs. 2000 was made to start work on the 2 tanks sanctioned in May 1907, for the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Albert Victor Leper AsylumIn 1908, an inspection report on the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum was made in August, 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A grant of Rs. 42 was made towards the estimated cost of 3 years of the registers and forms to be maintained in the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Albert Victor Leper AsylumThe premises at number 19, Watkins Lane, Howrah, had been left by Mr. Jones as a bequest to his wife to be sold after her death for the benefit of the Albert Victor Leprosy Asylum and of the Free School, Calcutta. The government solicitor made enquiries regarding the proposed sale of the premises and the action taken by the government in March 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)An advance of Rs. 2000 was made to start work in connection with the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
BankuraA grant of Rs. 850 was made available for the construction of a new building for the female lepers at the Bankura asylum and Rs. 1,872 for three years, pending the settlement of a question of bringing the Asylum under the operation of the Leper's Act West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Payment of Rs. 15 was made to Babu John Singh as actual travelling expenses in order for him to take up his appointment West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Sudan: "In Kordofan, isolated cases are spread throughout the breadth of the Province, but it is not until one reaches the south Jebel district that it assumes alarming proportions. Thus, in the neighbourhood of Eliri, amongst the Muwalad Nubos who inhabit the scattered villages at the foot of the hill, the disease is rampant; in some villages as many as ten percent being afflicted, without distinction of age or sex. Again, the Nuba inhabitants of the Kadugli and Murta hills are seriously affected, and those of Dilling to a lesser degree. …. All precautions are taken in leprous districts to isolate infected persons as much as possible, and to prevent their entering public places, or trading in articles of food, clothing, etc. It is, however, quite impossible to deal adequately with the matter without a thoroughly organised system of complete isolation, a question at present under consideration. There is no known treatment which influences the course of this disease; cleanliness alone must be aimed at." Report on Kordofan Province , Edited by El Kaimakam Watkiss Lloyd, Governor, Kordofan Province.[Epidemiology, Treatment][Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan]
1908
BhagalpurBhagalpur was brought under the Lepers' Act of 1898 in November 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A grant of Rs. 9350 was proposed to be made to the Raniganj leprosy asylum to meet the cost of additional accommodation of people with leprosy West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
KalaupapaDefosses, P, 'La Colonie des Lépreux des Hawai'. Press. Med. , 1908:16 (68) 577. 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]
1908
BhagalpurA grant of Rs. 1,458 a year for three years was made to the Bhagalpur Asylum in November 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)The plan and estimate amounting to Rs. 4320 for the construction of 4 additional wards and the sinking of a new well for the Raniganj leprosy asylum were sanctioned West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]