Lazarópolis do Prata43 entered, 17 left, 17 died, 388 remained. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , 1933:27, 204)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1927
China (circa 1927): de Vloten estimated one million cases of leprosy, i.e. 2.5 per mille. Reported by T C Wu in "What the Chinese are doing to rid China of leprosy", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 1-10, p. 1.[Epidemiology][China]
1927
Kwangju Colony"A study of 938 cases of leprosy has been made. The patients are all inmates of the leper colonies of Kwanjgu and Fusan." R. M. Wilson, MD, in Kwangju, Chosen, Korea. "Leprosy in Korea", The Leper Quarterly , 4 (1927): 8-11.[Leprosarium][Korea]
1927
IndoreIndependent? (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
TumutumuIn his "Memorandum on Leprosy Work in Kenya Colony and Protectorate", Frank Oldrieve wrote that he hoped that Dr Philp's work here might be extended.[Leprosarium][Kenya]
1927
Moradabad Philadelphia AsylumMentioned by Cochrane as supported by TLM, 100 inmates[Leprosarium][India]
1927
KarigiriCochrane notes both a Medical School and a travelling dispensary[Leprosarium][India]
Dr Cochrane toured through East Africa from Egypt to South Africa and to North and South Rhodesia. He was able to give much valuable advice to leprosy workers and wrote full reports on the position in each area visited. Here, too, lack of funds greatly restricted progress. The Foundation of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) and its First Twenty-One Years of Work by Sir Leonard Rogers. London: British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, 1945. p 14-5.[Organisation][Africa]
1927
Pakhoi CMS Leper AsylumJ. A. Lee, "The latest news about the Pakhoi leper hospital", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 29-32, (includes a report of the failure to cultivate Chaulmoogra locally, and also the state of nearby leprosy villages).[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Victoria Leprosy HospitalCochrane - aided by TLM[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Santa Terezinha (preventório)8 September 1927 - Inauguated.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1927
China (circa 1927): Leonard Rogers estimated over one million cases of leprosy.Jonas Lee estimated that two-thirds were from the the three southern provinces of Kwangtung, Kwansi and Fukien: "in most districts of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, the percentage of lepers among non-lepers is above 1%" and in some areas "as high as 3% or 4%". Source: J A Lee, "China and leprosy", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 11-18, on pp. 12-13.[Epidemiology][China]
1927
Tungkun"Long before the establishment of our Leper Home in 1905 there were a great many of the poor lepers dwelling in small and unspeakable filthy huts near the South Gate of the city. The lepers received daily from the magistrate 7 or 14 small cash Rev Fr Diehl, "The Leper Asylum of the Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, Kwangtung", The Leper Quarterly . 4 (1927): 11-15.[Leprosarium][China]
Seventy-six people were confined in the lazaret on Peel Island, Queensland, and nine new cases with leprosy were identified in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health to 30th June, 1927 , (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, William Street).[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1927
Kunming Municipal Leprosarium"We discovered that there was a home for lepers kept up by the city, and last Wednesday Dr. Bradley and I together with two missionaries called on the mayor and asked permission to go twice a week and give injections. He seemed quite pleased, and so we will commence shortly. There are 23 men and 13 women. It is surrounded by a high wall and is rather like a prison than anything else, and it is a pitythat there is no land to cultivate. They get rice only and one copper a day for other food! They do absolutely nothing, so we will try and get them an occupation. It will cost too much to build a wall for vegetable gardens and without that they would run away. I expect you will be interested in hearing how this treatment goes on, and I will write you later. I hope that the Mission to Lepers will provide the medicines. The place is five miles away in a nice site among the hills. The inmates come regularly for injections - hardly one ever misses. On the whole they are very illiterate, and do not get sufficiently nourishing food to make the best progress. However, they all maintain that they are greatly benefited. Without any disrespect to the officials who have built and maintained this home, it does, by comparison with the Pakhoi Hospital, show a difference. One might compare the first to a cold moral goodness. It was good to have such an institution, but the second is one of Christ-like goodness, and the vital difference is that little word of Love." Dr Watson, "Yünnanfu", The Leper Quarterly , 2 (1927): 32-33.[Leprosarium][China]
Tocunduba264 patients in total at end of year: fifty-four admitted; thirteen dismissed; thirty-five 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]
1927
Thailand: Robert Cochrane observed that census figures indicated an incidence of 8,000 - 10,000, but that some specialists claim an incidence of 30,000 cases or more. Source: from R. Cochrane, "How to Rid a Country of Leprosy", The Leper Quarterly, 4 (1927), on p. 1.[Epidemiology][Thailand]
1927
Russia: 879 cases (Bortkewitsch, quoted in Rogers 19).[Epidemiology][Russia]
1927
Chandkuri Leprosy Hospital and HomeTLM, room for 400 (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Victoria Leper HomeTLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Hebei (North of Yellow River) leprosarium"There are now thirty-eight lepers in residence here, and in spite of a number of trials and difficulties the work goes on hopefully. Among these difficulties I might mention the four or five nationalities (or rather races) concerned - Chinese, Moslem, Turki, Tibetan, and Tartar - all being represented among our lepers. ... At present we have no dressing room for lepers, so that their dressings are done in the open for lack of a meeting-room. Yet the work has progressed and over ten have given their names as inquirers. Of these we hope to see five baptised at the end of this week in the Yellow River which flows close beside us." Source: Dr. G. F. King, Lanchowfu, Kansu: "Baptised in the Yellow River", The Leper Quarterly, 3 (1927): 22.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
TLM Hospital MuzaffarpurVisited by Cochrane[Leprosarium][India]