SylhetSmall government institution (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
The first Secretary of BELRA, Mr. Frank Oldrieve, toured East Africa. There were altogether 924 cases under treatment (Anti-Leprosy Measures in the Uganda Protectorate, 1824-51) in “Leprosy Incidence and Control in East Africa, 1924-1952 and the Outlook” by Leonard Rogers, Leprosy Review 25.1 (1954): 41-59[Epidemiology, Organisation, People][Africa, Uganda]
1927
Tenghsien Leper Home, Mrs Sarah Waters Memorial Hospital"There are 57 leper men in the home. We could have 500, so many are begging to come. There are 12 women, mostly unmarried girls; about 12 more want to enter. Almost all are advanced cases, so the treatments are not satisfactory. The men and women are happy and contented in the homes. The spirit of love and helpfulness is very fine in both homes." Source: Alma D. Dodds, "Tenghsien, Shantung", The Leper Quarterly, 2 (1927): 33.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Amballa (Ambala)Robert Cochrane reports that Amballa is aided by the Mission to Lepers[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Cuttack Leper HospitalIn 1927, Cuttack received a second visit by Gandhi. (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Vengurla (Friends Leprosy Mission)Recorded by Cochrane[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Frank Oldrieve's tour from Cairo to Cape, through the whole of British East Africa and South Africa (culmination of three years' visits). Source: Leprosy Notes , 1 (1928): 6. BELRA cites “158 000 lepers being treated in our African possessions" and 100,000 doses of Alepol distributed.[Epidemiology, Organisation, People, Treatment][Africa]
1927
TLM new (Cochrane)[Leprosarium]
1927
Benares"Leper Colonies. A Salvation Army Settlement On The Ganges", The Times , Thursday, Jan 27, 1927; pg. 7, announced the imminent establishment of a leprosy colony near Benares.[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Culion Leper Colony"Phillippines war on leprosy", The Leper Quarterly , 1 (1927): 29-30; (observes that there are 6,000 patients on Culion Island).[Leprosarium][Philippines]
1927
BhagalpurRobert Cochrane indicates that there were 216 inmates in 1927[Leprosarium][India]
1927
ImphalSmall government institution under direct charge of State Medical Officer (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
A new preparation of Chaulmoogra oil came into use for the treatment of leprosy and was sent out by BELRA to all parts of the Empire, both to Government Medical Officers and missionaries. Later in this year, Dr Ernest Muir fund a simple way of giving the oil without blocking the veins of patients. This was based on the idea developed by Sir Leonard Rogers, but less painful to deliver. Messrs Burroughs, Wellcome and Co put the new formula on the market under the name of Alepol .[Organisation, Treatment]
1927
Xiaogan Leprosarium"On the departure of the Northern officials from Central China towards the end of 1926 and in the early days under the Southern regime, every form of anti-Christian, anti-foreign, and other propaganda was fiercely indulged in by a large group of disgruntled and often hysterical students and imported strike and labour leaders. Processions of an unruly character frequently took place in Siao Kan city. Everything devilish which could be devised to upset the usual peaceful life of the Church, schools, and medical work was done. Threats to take forceful possession of the hospitals and leper home and to kill every leper were made without any reservation. Fortunately, so far as the leper work is concerned, better thoughts prevailed, and following the departure of all foreigners from the city at the call of the consular authorities, the repeated threats of the rabble and of the students in particular, grew less violent. To-day the leper work remains unmolested and perfect calm and peace is reported in the home itself. We earnestly pray that this state of things may continue and that under the new order of things no ill befall our big family of lepers." Dr Henry Fowler, "Siao Kan Leper Home", The Leper Quarterly, 2 (1927): 34. Note: Xiaogan may also be spelled Siao Kan.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Chamba State Leper AsylumA State Institution aided by TLM (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Hangchow Leper HospitalThe work suffered a serious setback in the spring of 1927 as the CMS Hospital and associate institutions were first raided by communists and afterwards occupied by representatives of the provincial Government until the hospital was restored to its rightful owners through the intervention of the Central Government in the summer of 1928. 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]
1927
Palliport Leper Hospital/LazarettoState authorities have plans for new leper hospital (Cochrane)[Leprosarium][India]
1927
Cochrane visited Japan and Korea, then on his return to India was placed in charge of Bankura, Bengal.[People][India, Japan]
Dr J A Mitchell - Annual Report of the Department of Health in the Union of South Africa. Source: Leprosy Notes , 5 (1929): 6.[People][Africa]
1927
Pakhoi CMS Leper Asylum"This hospital is an extension of the C.M.S. General Hospital, which was founded by the late Dr. C. Horder in 1886. It is divided into two compounds - one for men and one for women - and situated on the western side of the General Hospital. The principal buildings in the Men's Compound comprise three large airy wards, a church, printing rooms, an operating theater, and a workshop. There are, besides, smaller buildings serving as kitchens, bathrooms, sick room, storerooms, lavatory, etc. The Women's Compound has two large wards and a church - all built parallel to one another. At present, in the two compounds, there are 58 males and 42 females. Within the Men's Compound occupations of various kinds are carried on. In the workshop is to be seen happy and contented lepers making baskets of all shapes and sizes, twining ropes, plaiting straw slippers, sawing wood, making brooms, etc. The products are consumed locally. All finished articles are sterilized before leaving the compound and a non-leper is engaged as salesman. There is also a printing department where Romanized, Chinese and English can be printed. Nearly all the printed matter of the Missions is done here. Formerly as an instrument for Christian propaganda work, this department has lately suspended part of its service, and at present only three or four workers are engaged. Gardening and lace making are the chief occupations of the female lepers. Lepers within the compounds, needless to say, are healthier than those without. The introduction of the latest forms of medical treatment is chiefly responsible for the improved state of health. Since the adoption of compulsory medical treatment, the death rate of lepers has markedly decreased. To many of the inmates the results so far obtained are greeted as the resurrection of hope." Source: James A Lee, "The Pakhoi Leper Hospital", The The Leper Quarterly , 1 (1927): 31.[Leprosarium][China]
1928
Estimated number suffering from leprosy in India 416 000 (Muir estimates between 500,000 - 1,000,000).[Epidemiology][India]
1928
Aimorés (Aymorés)Acta do lançamento da primeira pedra da construção do Asilo-Colonia "Aimorés".' Leaflet. Baurú, 28-9-1928. 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]
1928
Leprosy Notes was begun by Rev Frank Oldrieve in order to provide information to field workers. The Annual General Meeting for BELRA was published in Leprosy Notes , 1 (1928).[Organisation, People]
1928
Kenya: In 1928, there were 547 voluntary admissions to leprosy institutions in Kenya, and Alepol “treatment is said to be very effective.” (Leonard Rogers, "Leprosy Incidence and Control in East Africa, 1924-1952 and the Outlook" Leprosy Review 25.1 (1954): 41-59)[Epidemiology, People, Treatment][Africa, Kenya]
1928
Nurse H Oborn who had spent six years with the Universities Mission to Central Africa from 1922 (five of those years nursing people with leprosy) wrote "What a Nurse Can Do for Lepers", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 26.[People][Africa]
1928
Institute for Medical Research, in the Federated Malay States, Kuala Lumpur: EAO Travers, Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 13.[Other][South-East Asia]
1928
Vengurla (Friends Leprosy Mission)Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency , Bombay: Government Central Press. (MSA R 3706/2)[Leprosarium][India]
1928
LoyuanEleven in the camp were undergoing treatment. Dr Byrne used 'Hydnocreol'. After five months treatment they all refused to go on with the injections saying they made them 'feel so ill and none of them were one bit better!' Source: Dr F M Cooper, 'Loyuan', in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy", The China Medical Journal, 44 (1930): 787)[Leprosarium][China]
1928
Estonia: 235 cases (Paldrock, quoted in Rogers 19).[Epidemiology][Europe]