McDonald in Itu, Nigeria. Source: "Founding a Leper Colony in Nigeria" Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 3[People][Africa]
1927
TLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium]
1927
Preventórios proposed by Dr Teófilo de Almeida (“O problema da lepra no distrito federal com relaçao ao isolamento, Rio de Janeiro” Medicamenta 134. ano XII (1933): 16-17)[Other][Brazil]
1927
Hangchow Leper HospitalA letter from Duncan Main at the Hangchow Leper Hospital, to Rev T C Wu indicates that the Chinese Mission to Lepers supplied patients and funds for Hangchow on top of the Mission to Lepers funding. The letter was published in The Leper Quarterly , 1 (1927): 31-2.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
GayaAided by the Leprosy Mission (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
BankuraTLM, Kalimpong, Dr Macdonald Smith (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Uganda: Frank Oldrieve reported that the Church Missionary Society were already doing leprosy work in Uganda, at Ng'ora. This work was to be extended with support from the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) under the direction of Dr Wiggins. The idea was that Ng'ora would become a treatment centre for the Eastern Provinces. The CMS would also develop work in the southern part of Uganda, as well. He also reported that the Roman Catholic Missions were prepared to do their share of leprosy work. Dr Wiggins was to become the Honorary Secretary of the Ugandan branch of BELRA, and this would organise work in several parts of the Protectorate. At this time, he estimated that in a population of 3,145,000 people, they were 20,000 affected by the disease, and 600 being either segregated or treated. There were aproximately six workers actually treating the disease. Source: Frank Oldrieve, The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, "Statement Concerning Leprosy Work in British Colonies in Africa, with Special Reference to the Possibilities of the Situation from the Missionary Standpoint", 1927? In a separate report "Memorandum on Leprosy Work in the Uganda Protectorate", Oldrieve recommended that a Uganda Branch of BELRA be formed with a central committee centered in Entebbe or Kampala (consisting of representatives from the Government, the Protestant and Roman Catholic Missions, the business community and the Chiefs); a small representative committee for each Province (consisting of the Provincial Commissioner, and medical and missionary representatives). Additional recommendations were for a survey; a Central Treatment Hospital in each Province or District (with priority to be given to early cases); treatment at dispensaries where trained African assistants were in attendance; incentives such as tax remittance to early cases who presented themselves; establishment of leper villages; provision for healthy children; school education campaigns; and growth of Hydnocarpus Wightiana and Hydnocarpus Anthelmintica trees. He suggested that Government finance be supplemented by support from the Mission to Lepers and BELRA.[Organisation, People, Treatment][Uganda]
1927
Hangchow Leper HospitalThe hospital was taken over by the provincial government of Chekiang in March, 1927, and was placed under the supervision of Commissioner Ting. Under the new regime, religious meetings were prohibited and patients were strictly segregated. "The Hangchow Leper Hospital after being nationalized", The Leper Quarterly, 3 (1927): 25-6.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
RawalpindiTLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
LuiFrank Oldrieve reported that the Church Missionary Society had a good treatment centre at Lui, under Dr Fraser, in the Southern Sudan, "where he has about 70 lepers living there and taking treatment. Dr Fraser wishes to extend this work and will require fresh buildings for the lepers and probably a house for a nurse who is soon to be sent out to help in this work." "The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association: Statement Concerning Leprosy Work in British Colonies in Africa, with Special Reference to the Possibilities of the Situation from the Missionary Standpoint"[Leprosarium][Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]
1927
Alleppey (Allepy)Mentioned by Cochrane as a small settlement[Leprosarium][India]
1927
South Africa: Government Leper Institution, Emjanyana, Transkei, marks a shift from the “old semi-prison system to one [close to] the old Native system of village life". Source: Neil Macvicar, "Leprosy Work in South Africa: A Visit to Emjanyana", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 24-6.[People][Africa]
1927
PatparaTLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
The first census of leprosy in Mexico was published, due to the efforts of Dr González Urueña. The total registration of patients was 1 450.[Epidemiology][Central America]
1927
Swatow Mission Hospital"The Swatow Leper Asylum is located on the "Head-bowing Hill" about three miles apart from the city. It is surrounded by sea and filled with fresh air. The institution was founded in October, 1924, with an initial fund of $13,000 and an annual budget for $10,000, all appropriated by the Municipal Government of Swatow. Injection of chaulmoogra esters, which is supplied by the Peking Medical College, is made on every Friday. The inmates of the asylum are chiefly recruited by the police who arrest lepers seen on the street. The lepers are confined separately according to their differences in the stage of the disease and in sex. There are 20 rooms in the asylum, each permitting four occupants. Excepting the advanced cases those who are physically strong are required to do the sweeping, washing, gardening, and other work. The clothes and utensils are washed in every other day so as to insure cleanliness. No leper is allowed to leave the asylum unless he is examined by the doctor to have been cured and given with a certificate to that effect. Up to October, 1925, there were only 23 lepers in the colony, but since autumn of this year the number has increased to 56. So far as our record goes, there is an improvement of 60% with the light cases and 30% with the advanced cases as a result of our treatment." Source: Dr Cheng Kee Linn (Physician) and Tsai Yung Yi (Superintendent), "The Swatow Leper Asylum", The Leper Quarterly, 1 (1927): 32.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Saldoha Leprosy Home and HospitalAided by the Leprosy Mission; run by the Danish Mission: noted as new by Cochrane[Leprosarium][India]
1927
São RoqueMedeiros, L. 'A luta contra a lepra no Paraná: Leprosario São Roque'. Arq. Hig. , 1927:1 (1) 165. 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]
1927
Kenya: In 1927, a survey of a population of 128,147, on the shores of Lake Victoria, revealed 461 leprosy cases, or 3.6 per mille. The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) was providing support. The Secretary of BELRA, Mr. Oldrieve, toured East Africa. Source: Leonard Rogers, "Leprosy Incidence and Control in East Africa, 1924-1952 and the Outlook" Leprosy Review 25.1 (1954): 41-59.[Epidemiology, Organisation, People][Africa, Kenya]
1927
Yenping leper village"Our Christian leper people in the Chiengmai Asylum - we are all Christians save one man - have heard - through the October number of Without The Camp of the burning of the Yenping leper village in Fukien, China. These dear people are much moved ... They have asked me, therefore, to pass on to you at once their Christmas offering for the Yenping people. I am enclosing herewith the equivalent of fifty-seven ticals, all but five of which were given out of the loving poverty of these leper Christians." Dr. J. W. McKean, Chiengmai, Siam. "The Samaritan among the lepers", The Leper Quarterly, 3 (1927): 23.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Tarn TaranTLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
MelutFrank Oldrieve recommended that consideration be given to "whether Dr Trudinger at Melut and Dr Maxwell at Nasser, ought to be asked to undertake more leper work than they are at present doing." Cited in Robert Cochrane, Leprosy in Europe, The Middle and Near East and Africa (London: World Dominion Press, 1928), p 24[Leprosarium][Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]
1927
Dayapuram Hospital and HomesMentioned by Cochrane TLM[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Executive Committee of BELRA report published: "A Problem of Empire Suffering".[Organisation, Publication]
1927
RaipurAided by TLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
The organisation of anti-leprosy activities begins in Brazil, with the isolation of patients. (Campos Melo, L. 'A luta contra a lepra no Distrito Federal'. Folha Médica . Rio de Janeiro, 1937. Cited in: Velloso, A P & Andrade, V. Hanseníase: curar para eliminar . Porto Alegre, 2002)[Other][Brazil]
1927
Tai-Kam ColonyJohn Lake, "Tai-Kam Island" (short correspondence), The Leper Quarterly , 1 (1927): 33.[Leprosarium][China]
Santo ÂngeloMello, L M H. 'O problema da lepra. A proposito do leprosario de Santo Angelo - Uma carta da directoria do Serviço Sanitario, de 9-7-1927'. From O Estado de São Paulo , Julho [July] de 1927. 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]
1927
Kenya: Frank Oldrieve reported that at Maseno, in Kenya, some 20 miles from Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, Nyanza, there was a good mission hospital run by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) where leprosy treatment was given to patients who attended the outpatient department. He reported that "This Hospital is doing excellent work …. There is every chance of the work growing to much larger proportions. This is important for us to know as there has been a proposal that a leper village, or settlement, should be built on Government land adjoining the Mission property, the idea being that the CMS Doctors could take charge of the institution." He also reported on his visit to Tumutumu "where the Church of Scotland Mission have a splendid work, with Dr Philp in charge. It is at the base of Mount Kenya and beautifully situated. The Doctor has been doing some leper work on a small scale, but would like to increase it, and indeed, it appears that there is a good deal of need for more to be done in that part of the Kikuyu country. I much hope that Dr Philp will be able to extend his leprosy work, and I trust that the Mission to Lepers will be able to help him if he seeks their aid." (Frank Oldrieve, British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, Secretary's Report No 5, "Report on Tour in Kenya Colony and Protectorate", 1927)[Organisation, People, Treatment][Africa, Kenya]
1927
McKean Leprosy Hospital"Our Christian leper people in the Chiengmai Asylum - we are all Christians save one man - have heard - through the October number of Without The Camp of the burning of the Yenping leper village in Fukien, China. These dear people are much moved ... They have asked me, therefore, to pass on to you at once their Christmas offering for the Yenping people. I am enclosing herewith the equivalent of fifty-seven ticals, all but five of which were given out of the loving poverty of these leper Christians." Dr. J. W. McKean, Chiengmai, Siam. "The Samaritan among the lepers", The Leper Quarterly, 3 (1927): 23.[Leprosarium][Siam]