Nine asylums in the Madras Presidency ( Sanitation Report)[Epidemiology][India]
1921
Fifty cases with leprosy in Queensland were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1905 , (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street).[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1921
Sholapur District, Maharashtra, India: 95 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]
1922
Culion Leper ColonyCatanjal, A, 'Culion Leper Colony, Philippine Islands'. Trop. Dis. Bull. , 1922:19 (7) 590. 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][Philippines]
1922
Tai-Kam ColonyAfter the death of their patron (Dr Wu Ting-fang), Rev Lake and Wang Eu-Kam were sent abroad to raise funds to build the asylum. They returned with $66,000. Source: Wang Eu-Kam, "Dr Wu Ting-Fang and the Tai-Kam leper colony", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 22-25, p. 25[Leprosarium][China]
1922
Culion Leper ColonyThe Culion leper experiment'. From Lancet , 1922:1, 91. 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][Philippines]
1922
Kalihi HospitalBenchetrit, A, 'Trabajos cientificos y literarios enviados desde Hawaii: Los miercoles en el 'Kalihi Hospital'. El Kalihi Hospital'. Chapter from Disertaciones acerca de la Lepra . Caracas, 1922 (1st Series) 37, 53 and 91. 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]
1922
TocundubaAraujo, H C S. 'I.- Historico da lepra no Pará de 1746 a 1921: 2.- O Asylo de Tocunduba - Tentativa de prophylaxia. II.- Estatistica dos leprosos recenseados. Distribuição geographica da lepra no Estado; seus principaes focos em Belem. Carta epidemiologica da Capital: 1.- No Asylo do Tocunduba'. From book, A Prophylaxia da Lepra e das Doenças Venereas no Estado do Pará . Belem, 1922:2 (Part One) 12 and 58. 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]
1922
Tocunduba248 patients in total at end of year: thirty-five admitted; three dismissed; fifty-two died. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1933:27 (3))[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1922
Curupaití (Curupaity)1922-1924. The Federal Government acquire the site of Curupaití that was initially planned for a hospital for tuberculosis patients. ( Hospital-Colônia de Curupaití , 1937. Document in CPDOC - Fundação Getúlio Vargas archive, Ref. GC h 1935.09.02 - rolo 62 fot. 575)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1922
Cuttack Leper HospitalIn 1922, Rev O J Millman took over as superintendent of Cuttack asylum from Rev R J Grundy (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989: 22)[Leprosarium][India]
1922
TungkunIn 1922, I began the treatment of lepers. At first, I made intramuscular injections with oil chaulmoogra and oil camphor, afterwards with the ethylesters of the fatty acids of chaulmoogra oil. In general these injections were painful. Later on we used 'Sodium hydnocarpate,' prepared at Calcutta and injected intravenously. Afterwards we treated the lepers with mixed ethyl esters of chaulmoogra oil. We use this prepation still; it is prepared by the Peking Union Medical College, and we are very thankful to the Mission to Lepers, that we may get it free of charges.' From: Dr O Hueck, "Tungkun" in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 773.[Leprosarium][China]
1922
Serviço de Prophylaxia da Lepra e Doenças Venereas created in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo; Dr Miguel Motta named as Inspector of the Service, and succeeded by Dr Pedro Fontes in 1927. (Araujo, H C S. 'A lepra no Espirito Santo e a sua prophylaxia. A "Colonia de Itanhenga" - Leprosario modelo'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1937:32 (4) 554)[Other][Brazil]
1922
Lady Willingdon Settlement"As long ago as 1913, the Government, after careful consideration decided that the Lepers' Act III of 1898 should be brought into force throughout the Presidency, as soon as arrangements could be made for the reception of pauper lepers. For this purpose, it was intended (1) to establish a Government Leper Asylum at Chingleput, and (2) to make use of existing private asylums for the compulsory segregation of lepers. Plans and estimates amounting to Rs 342,861 for the construction of pukka buildings for an asylum for 300 patients at Chingleput were sanctioned in 1917, but owing to the financial stringency created by the war, it was not possible to proceed with the scheme." "The scheme for a settlement at Chingleput received a further stimulus under the following circumstances. Her Excellency Lady Willingdon, on visiting the leper hospital at Tondiarpet, was struck by the unsuitable buildings and arrangements generally, and, interesting herself in the matter, consulted the Surgeon-General, who agreed to the proposal to remove the lepers from Madras to a settlement in the Muffassal. The two sites hitherto proposed for the settlement having been found too small, a new 500 acre site (now part of a reserved forest) was inspected by their Excellencies, the Chief Engineer, the Collector of Chingleput, and the Rev Mr Sutherland and approved as suitable. Her Excellency, in the meantime, approached the Red Cross Society with the request that they should devote a portion of their funds to this undertaking and succeeded in obtaining from them a contribution of one lakh." Source: 'Note for the Finance Committee: Proposed Leper Colony at Chingleput', Correspondence at the Leprosy Mission International, Brentford.[Leprosarium][India]
1922
Fifty-five cases with leprosy in Queensland were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1905 , (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street).[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1922
Likoma IslandA small group of lepers went to live there voluntarily.[Leprosarium][Nyasaland]
1922
Nauru: Early in 1922, the Medical Officer reported ten cases of leprosy in isolation and his suspicion that leprosy was spreading. He therefore asked for the assistance of a bacteriologist, and Dr F G Morgan of the Australian Health Department was sent from Melbourne. In the course of an excellent and comprehensive report, Dr Morgan confirmed the diagnosis in twenty-five cases, fifteen of which he found bacteriologically positive. He ascribed the introduction of the disease into Nauru to a Gilbertese woman who was admitted to the island in 1912 by the German Governor against the advice of his medical officer. Dr Morgan also, however, referred to an infected Caroline Islander "or many years resident on Nauru", and to the fact that "a few sporadic cases had occurred amongst the Chinese labourers from time to time previous to 1920." In his Annual Report for 1922, written some months later, the Medical Officer recorded that "the number of cases in segregation increased from 10 to 139. The number of more or less suspicious cases under review at the year's end lads to the belie that at least 100 more will require segregation during the next few months …. The extraordinary rapid spread of the disease from the small focus existent in 1920, I believe, to be due in notable degree to the 100 per cent incidence of the pneumonic influenza epidemic in September 1920, with the resultant severe debility." Source: C J Austin, Leprosy on the Island of Nauru , Noumea, South Pacific Commission, April 1952, p 2.[Epidemiology][Nauru, Pacific Islands]
1922
St Giles Home for British LepersThe News of the World , on Jan. 1, 1922: "Rochford Board of Guardians, Essex, are confronted with the problem of dealing with a man who is both a leper and insane. The patient is a native of Mauritius. It was stated at a Board meeting that the man lived for some time in a cottage in a rural parish, and his wife looked after him, but she was unable to do so any longer. Formerly the man was in the Leper Colony at Bicknacre, Essex - an institution carried on by the Society of the Divine Compassion, assisted by the Sisterhood of St. Giles - but his mental state was such that he could not remain there. Asylum authorities who were approached refused to accept the case, and the Board of Control supported them in their attitude. It was also stated that the Ministry of Health would not deal with the matter. Consequently the man had to be cared for by the Guardians. A building was prepared for him, and efforts made to secure three male nurses, though only two have been obtained. The cost of three nurses is twelve guineas a week. Eventually the Board decided to send a deputation to the Ministry of Health." Cited by Anthony M. Ludovici in Woman: A Vindication . London: Constable & Co., 1926: pp. 244-245.[Leprosarium][United Kingdom]
1923
Third International Leprosy Congress, Strasbourg. President: Edouard Jeanselme.[Conference/Congress, People][Europe]
1923
Nauru: At the end of the following year, on Nauru, the Medical Officer commented: "The large number of cases appearing in a population of approximately 1168 must necessarily give rise to alarm but … results are on the whole most encouraging. A few cases have indeed showed advancement of symptoms in spite of treatment; but in the majority of cases the clinical findings have remained stationary, while some others have shown decided improvement. C J Austin, Leprosy on the Island of Nauru , Noumea, South Pacific Commission, April 1952, p 2.[Epidemiology][Nauru, Pacific Islands]
1923
Calicut157 admitted, ECCO injections Bailey, W. Fifty Years' Work for Lepers 1874-1924 , London: The Mission to Lepers, 1924[Leprosarium][India]
1923
Culion Leper ColonyWade, H W, & Basa, J A, 'The Culion Leper Colony'. Am. J. Trop. Med. , 1923:3 (5) 395. 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][Philippines]
1923
Lazarópolis do Prata24 June - Founded. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , 1933:27, 202)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1923
Tocunduba254 patients in total at end of year: thirty-seven admitted; none dismissed; thirty-one died. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1933:27 (3))[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1923
Hangchow Leper Hospital"The women were housed in temporary quarters on this site [Pine Avenue Hill, near Hangchow], until the present women's hospital was built in 1923." Source: Phyllis Haddow and Stephen D Sturton, 'Hangchow', in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 790.[Leprosarium][China]
1923
Bethesda Leprosy HospitalFounded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][India]
1923
NarsapurFounded. 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][India]
1924
Founding of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) to "rid the Empire of leprosy". The founding members were Sir Leonard Rogers, Sir Frank Carter and Rev Frank Oldrieve.[Epidemiology, Organisation][North America]
1924
Léproserie de l’île Saint-Louis du Maroni, réservée aux lépreux condamnés " J’ai vu là 57 malades masculins : la lèpre tuberculeuse y prédomine. La régime alimentaire est mauvais, au dire des malades ; il est, en tout cas, insuffisant. Ils étaient aussi très mal habillés : quelques uns à moitié nus. Ces malades ne sont soumis à aucun traitement spécifique ; ils sont désoeuvrés et s’évadent quelquefois." Souza Arauja, "La Lèpre dans Les Guyanes et à La Trinité" at the Third International Leprosy Conference, Strasbourg - 28 to 31 July 1923 (Paris: Librairie J-B Baillière et Fils, 1924): 408-9.[Leprosarium]
1924
Lady Willingdon SettlementLady Willingdon Settlement founded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 and also 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. 59.[Leprosarium][India]