KalaupapaBoutin, C, 'La lutte contre la lèpre.- La lutte contre la lèpre aux Colonies: XIII. - De quelques léproseries sous les Tropiques: Léproserie de Molokai'. Thesis. Paris, 1908, 134. 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 proposal was made to bring the Bhagalpur asylum under the Lepers' Act. Correspondence was exchanged with the Superintendent of the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, regarding the Bhagalpur asylum in January 1908 and February 1908 West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
JesushilfeThe superindent of 17 years standing died, and the hospital was left to the care of the Sisters. Source: The British Journal of Nursing , 43 (July 10, 1909) . This article also mentions a visit by Emperor William of Germany several years before.[Leprosarium][Palestine]
1908
ItúRelatorio apresentado à Irmandade de Misericordia de Ytú, em reunião de 28 de Março de 1908, pela sua Meza Administrativa. Edificios'. S. Paulo, 1908, 13. 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]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)Babu John Singh was appointed as Medical Officer of the Raniganj leprosy asylum West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
BagamoyoThe hospital had the capacity to receive around 100 lepers. Source: H Goergen "The History of Health Care in Tanzania".[Leprosarium][German East Africa]
1908
McKean Leprosy HospitalDr James McKean founded the Chiangmai Leper Asylum in 1908. It was the first leprosy center in Thailand, at a time when leprosy sufferers were usually rejected from home and community. Many had wandered until they came to beg in Chiangmai town in order to live, and found shelter and some community together living under the bridge. They went regularly to the mission clinic where they received compassion, food and wound care. Although there was no effective treatment for the disease, Dr. McKean asked the local ruler for land downriver to set up a leprosy centre where those rejected by society were given somewhere to live, and die, with dignity and love. Hostels, small cottages in village groupings, a clinic, a water tower and a church were built. Orderliness and benevolence were keynotes of the centre and the example and teaching of the missionaries led many patients into a vital Christian life of faith. Patients started as recipients but gradually became participants in activities of the center. In keeping with the strict moral views of those days, the women were housed in a separate "village" at the northern end of the property, and the men were at the other end of the property in the men’s village. Both villages were in a community with provisions for basic necessities, plus spiritual and medical help. Hospital wards, a school and more cottages were built gradually over the next 20 years to house the stream of patients making their way to McKean from all parts of Thailand, and even from neighbouring countries. Responsible patients were put into teams (to take of maintenance and as guards and nurses) to help run the center. Dr Trevor Smith (McKean Rehab Center, Chiangmai, Nth Thailand)[Leprosarium][Siam]
1908
Ranigunj (Raniganj, Ranigani, Raniganji)A contribution was made by the government of half the salary and allowance of the Medical Officer up to the maximum of Rs. 25-8 per mensem West Bengal State Archives[Leprosarium][India]
1908
Alleppey (Allepy)Isaac Henry Hacker, A Hundred Years in Travancore, 1806-1906, a history and description of the work done by the London Missionary society. London, 1908.[Leprosarium][India]
1909
Culion Leper ColonyThe British Journal of Nursing , 43, (4 September, 1909): 203 reported that there were 1,700 patients there.[Leprosarium][Philippines]
1909
Kondhwa Budruk (Kondova Leper Home)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]
1909
Spain: a leper colony in the Alicante district of Valencia (Malaga, Granada, Seville - leper hospitals - the Sanitary Colony of Fontilles): (Rogers 21).[Other][Europe]
1909
The Second International Leprosy Congress, Bergen. This conference reaffirmed the recommendation for control of the disease by isolation and segregation; it recommended the removal of children from leprous parents as soon as possible; and it recognised the probable hematogenous dissemination of leprosy. Source: International Journal of Leprosy: Centennial Festskrift, 1 1873-1973 Antileprol was presented to this Congress.[Conference/Congress, Treatment][Europe]
1909
17 January - the first eight patients entered Fontilles, attended by the Sisters Franciscans de la Inmaculada and by the Jesuits. Soon after the Sanatorium became a self-sufficient village with its own facilities. (Father Ignacio Moragues, Director, Fontilles)[Other][Europe]
1909
1909 Thailand: the Government's Leprosy Division estimated 10,000 cases in the entire country. Source: Brown TR., Chapter 2 in Contagious Compassion: Celebrating 100 Years of American Leprosy Missions. Providence House: Franklin, 2006, pp. 25-42.[Epidemiology][Thailand]
1909
National Sanatorium Matsuoka Hoyo-en (Hokubu Hoyo-in) 国立療養所松丘保養園This sanatoria was originally opened as the Hokubu Hoyo-in on April 1st in 1909. It started with 90 beds in Aburakawa Village and it was called "The Northern Leprosarium of Second Division". It was established and operated by the local governments of all the six prefectures of the Tohoku region and the Hokkaido. In that year it was moved to the present site on October 1st.[Leprosarium][Japan]
1909
National Sanatorium Kikuchi Keifu-en (Kyushu Hospital) 国立療養所菊池恵楓園Originally opened as the Kyushu Hospital[Leprosarium][Japan]
1909
National Sanatorium Tama Zensho-en (Zensei Hospital) 国立療養所多磨全生園This hospital opened as the Zensei Hospital[Leprosarium][Japan]
1909
National Sanatorium Oshima Seisho-en / Ohshima Hospital 国立療養所大島青松園The Ohshima Seisho-en was originally opened as the Ohshima hospital[Leprosarium][Japan]
1910
Dr J Gonzalez Uruena presented to the Fourth National Medical Congress of September[Conference/Congress][Central America]
1910
In Mexico City, exactly two months before the beginning of the Mexican revolution, a paper entitled “How to Begin Antileprosy Prophylaxis in Mexico”. In this trumpet call in a desert of indifference, the author recalls the existence of the disease in the country, and the need of a survey as the first step in the campaign. ( LR 32.4 (Oct 1961): 285)[Other][Central America]
1910
Use of injectable refined chaulmoogra oil was pioneered between 1910 and 1914[Other][Philippines]
1910
Eighty-four cases with leprosy in Queensland were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1910 , (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street).[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1910
KalaupapaDie Aussätzigen auf Malokai [sic]'. Arch. F. Schiffs-u. Tropen-Hyg. , 1910:14 (5) 161. 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]
1910
KalaupapaLesson, 'La Léproserie de Molokai - Iles Havai'. Bib. Int. Lep. , 1910:9 (3) 162. 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]
1910
Lazaretto, Black RockThe Official Gazette, 4 April 1910 contains an official notice of the opening of the new leprosy hospital. (568)[Leprosarium][West Indies]
1910
Bagida ColonyThe government meanwhile had abandoned its earlier liberal approach to the isolation of leprosy patients, as it had in control measures against sleeping sickness and small pox, as seen in its ordinance in Colonial-Legislation 13 (1909), where the option of compulsory isolation and penalties for non-reporting were codified. This was totally ineffectual: by 1910, 16 of 38 villagers had escaped, 6 had died and only 7 new cases were registered. So while the Model Leprosy home was taking giagantic steps towards its breakdown in Lomé, no countrywide survey of level of spread of the disease could be made yet, although in some District Offices, the lists of potential patients were at least initiated. When the number of patients shrank to 18 (after 11 new cases, 14 absconders and one death were calculated), Krüger had no option but to recognize the situation, though not without attempting to attribute the now demonstrable failure of the project to ethnic and geographical factors of the country. (Translated and summarised from Wolfgang U Eckart, Medizin and Kolonialimperialismus: Deutschland 1884-1945 pp 152-161)[Leprosarium][Togo]
1911
1911 Thailand: Dr. McKean estimated 15,000 cases. Source: Brown TR., Chapter 2 in Contagious Compassion: Celebrating 100 Years of American Leprosy Missions. Providence House: Franklin, 2006, pp. 25-42.[Epidemiology][Thailand]
1911
Sholapur District, Maharashtra, India: 90 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]
1911
Thane District, Maharashtra, India: 47 cases per 1,00,000. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer: Government of Maharashtra Thane District (Revised Edition). Bombay: Gazetteers Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1982. 1st edn: 1882. 2nd edn (rev) 1982, p. 897.[Epidemiology][India]