San Lázaro HospitalThe Spanish King, Felipe II, granted San Lázaro the same privileges as the Hospital Lazarinos leprosarium in Seville, allowing it receive donations and a measure of autonomy.[Leprosarium][Peru]
1587
Palliport Leper Hospital/Lazaretto"The oldest institution in the Madras presidency specifically for the care of leprosy suffers was the Pallipost Lazaretto at Cochin. Said to have been established by the Portuguese in 1587, it was restored by the Dutch in 1728 and continued by the East India Company as a leprosy hospital in 1795. The Lazaretto was initially maintained with rent money from the river ferry which ran from Vypeen to Cochin." (Jane Buckingham, Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement , UK: Palgrave, 2002)[Leprosarium][India]
1592
The San Lázaro Hospital of Cartagena, Colombia, accepted its first patients[Other][South America]
1595
San Lázaro HospitalThe building underwent architectural improvements.[Leprosarium][Peru]
1596
Argentina - Souza-Araujo in the “History of Leprosy in South America in the Colonial Period” in Revista Brasileira de Medicina 18.2 (Feb 1961) in Leprosy Review 32.1 (Jan 1962): 72. There were imported Africans who were the subjects of leprosy, as well as white European immigrants.[Other][South America]
1600
Beginning of Seventeenth Century: First hospital in America for people with leprosy founded at Cartagena (Jesuit priest D Pedro Alegre founded San Lazarus Hospital in Havana).[Other][South America, West Indies]
1604
San Lázaro HospitalArchbishop Toribio de Mogrovejo raised the status of the Hospital and the security of the Catholic Brotherhood who ran the Hospital was increased. At this time it was one of four main hospitals in Lima.[Leprosarium][Peru]
1612
Louis XIII of France forbade the marriage of persons with leprosy to anyone.[Legislation][Europe]
1617
Havana hospital, Cuba, accepted its first leprosy patients[Other][West Indies]
1626
The first case was reported in Venezuela. This was the Governor of the province.[Other][South America]
1627
Venezuela - other cases appeared between these years (Souza-Araujo “History of Antileprosy Legislation in South America in the Colonial period”)[Other][South America]
1630
The earliest recorded case of leprosy in Malta was that of a Dominican friar who died in the Rabat convent on April 30, 1630. (Archives of the Dominican Priory, Rabat (Malta): De statu trium conventum Parte 1, f.129t, 188. cited in Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[People][Europe, Malta]
1640
Campo dos Lázaros (Camp of the lepers), Bahia, Brazil (situated two miles from the Fortalezo de Nazaré do Cabo (Fort of Cape Nazereth)[Other][Brazil]
1642
Overseas Council (Conselho Ultramarino) established by João IV consisting of a president, secretary, and three councillors[Other][Europe]
1644
Japanese with leprosy who were Christianized arrive in Manila; San Lazaro Hospital in the Philippines established[Other][Philippines]
1644
Xiao Xiao-Ting, a leprologist from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) wrote Ma Feng Quan Shu regarded leprosy as an infectious disease and described its distribution in relation to geographical and meterological conditions. Information supplied by H Y Li )[Treatment][China]
1652
Iceland: Leper asylums opened but only one out of ten cases taken (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Other][Europe]
1659
The Council of the Order of St John expressed its concern in 1659 about the fate of those with leprosy on the island of Malta. ( Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[Other][Malta]
1677
July 27: Philip IV King of Spain signed a decree which stated that any person with leprosy would be isolated in hospital.[Legislation][Europe]
1678
San Lázaro HospitalAn earthquake destroyed part of the building.[Leprosarium][Peru]
1679
In 1679, the Commission appointed to assess the management of the Sacra Infirmeria on Malta suggested that while local people affected by the disease should be given financial aid and treated in their own homes, foreigners should only be admitted to the falanga reserved for contagious disease. Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[Other][Malta]
1682
The Leprosy Hospital of Lisbon had seven patients[Other][Europe]
1687
Malta: Leprosy known there (Rogers 22).[Other][Europe]
1687
Academic interest in leprosy was first shown in 1687 in Malta when Dr Guiseppe Zammit read a paper before a medical assembly wherein he described five cases of leprosy. ( Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[Other][Malta]
1696
First report on prevalence of leprosy in Rio de Janeiro by Artur de Sá e Meneses, the city's governor. Source: HC de Souza Araújo, História da lepra no Brasil . Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1946. Cited in: AP Velloso,& V Andrade, Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002.[Epidemiology][Brazil]
1698
Rio de Janeiro's governor, Artur de Sá e Meneses, asked the king to authorise the instalation of a leprosy hospital in order to improve the condition of people suffering with the disease. (Souza Araújo, H C de. História da lepra no Brasil . Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1946. Cited in: Velloso, A P & Andrade, V. Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002)[Other][Brazil]
1702
The Leprosy Hospital of Lisbon had eleven patients[Other][Europe]
1714
Iceland: total of people with leprosy 100-120 3/3.5 per mille (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Epidemiology][Europe]
1714
Gomes Freire de Andrade, Count of Bobadela and governor of Rio at the time, constructed huts for leprosy sufferers at the top of the hill in the São Christóvão district, near the Jesuit convent. (Souza Araújo, H C de. História da lepra no Brasil . Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1946. Cited in: Velloso, A P & Andrade, V. Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002)[Other][Brazil]
1716
Chaulmoogra seeds used in treatment of leprosy in Japan. Source: International Journal of Leprosy 1: 161.[Treatment][Japan]