Santo ÂngeloO asylo de Santo Angelo - O Diario Nacional visita demoradamente o leprosario que hoje se inaugura'. From Diario Nacional , S. Paulo, 3-5-1928. 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
June 30: 293 patients at Carville. Source: OE Denny, "In the United States: National Leprosarium at Carville, Louisana", Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 15-16.[Other][North America]
1928
Kenya: In 1928, Robert Cochrane stated of Kenya, that "No estimate of the prevalence of leprosy exists, but both Government and Mission doctors agree that in certain districts the percentage is probably high, especially amongst the Thanaka people, who inhabit the lower slopes of Kenya. Lepers are received at the Government infectious Disease Hospitals at Nairobi, Mombasa, and at six leper camps." (Robert Cochrane, Leprosy in Europe. The Middle East and near East and Africa , London: World Dominion Press, 1928, p 30)[Epidemiology][Africa, Kenya]
1928
Southern Rhodesia: a settlement near Fort Victoria and a treatment centre in the North and Fort Jameson, N Rhodesia, under a doctor of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission.[Other][Africa]
1928
Chacachacare Leper Settlement, Trinidad "Leprosy Work in the West Indies" by T B Welch in Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 21-3 (447 patients) treatment: hydnocarpus wightiana - "Alepol".[People, Treatment][West Indies]
1928
Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency, Bombay: Government Central Press. (MSA R 3706/2)[Leprosarium]
1928
Hongkew General DispensaryThe Hongkew General Dispensary was later moved to its present quarters at 173 Lin Pin Road in November 1928. (F Y Pan, 'Shanghai Hongkew General Dispensary', in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 793).[Leprosarium][China]
1928
Preventorios opened in Rio de Janeiro[Other][Brazil]
1928
Santo ÂngeloCaiuby, A S. 'Leprosario Santo Angelo.- Inaugura-se, hoje, pela manhã, o notavel asylo-colonia - Uma obra que honra a administração Julio Prestes. Fala ao Correio Paulistano o engenheiro da obra'. From Correio Paulistano , S. Paulo, 3-5-1928. 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
Muir refers to model surveys conducted by the Indian Council of The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association in Bihar, Bengal, Burma. Surveys in Central Provinces and Bombay are to follow. Source: Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 6.[People][India]
1928
Nyasaland (present day Malawi): Likoma colony described by Alice Simpkin in "The Treatment of Leprosy", The British Journal of Nursing , (Dec 1928): 313-4.[Publication, Treatment][Africa]
1928
Santo ÂngeloOnde renasce a esperança - A inauguração, hontem, do modelar Asylo-Colonia de Santo Angelo'. From A Platéa , S. Paulo, 4-5-1928. 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
Japan Central Social Work Association estimate 15 000 people with the disease. Dr Albert Oltmans - Gen Sec for Japan for the American Mission to Lepers estimates 60,000. Source: Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 27.[Epidemiology, People][Japan]
1928
Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency , Bombay: Government Central Press. (MSA R 3706/2)[Leprosarium]
1928
BethesdaSurinam Leprosy Annual Report 1928 (taken from the Annual Report of the Public Health Service 1928) At the end of December 1928, the number of patients was as follows: In the leprosy-settlement “Groot-Chatillon” 166; in the leprosy-asylum “St Gerardus Majella” 176; iIn the leprosy asylum “Bethesda” 66. In the capital city Paramariibo, there were known, on December 1928, 376 not-segregated lepers, of whom, 244 were treated by the Public Health Service clinically and 87 were treated in their homes. A number were treated by private physicians. In the districts, there were, on December 1928, 113 not segregated lepers under treatment. The number of lepers as far as known amounts in Paramaribo to 552; isolated 176; not isolated 376; in the districts 346; isolated 232; not isolated 113; in abodes not known, 41. Total 938 Besides that, there are 259 persons under supervision of the Public Health Service, because there have suspected symptoms; however, without that there exist sufficient reasons for treatment, or because they were formerly infected and are declared to be free from active symptoms now, or because they were born from leprous parents. (The supervision of those, declared as being cured includes a further treatment of at least 2 years. The regular control of children, born from lepers lasts till the age of 7 – 8 years is reached). A clinical-bacteriological examination at all schoolchildren extended over more than 8800 children, brought the alarming fact to the light, that not less than 167 children were found infected or in such a measure suspected, that they were forbidden to visit the school. Of this 167 children, 123 were found to be infected and 44 to be suspected. The bacteriological examination found16 children positive. Only those children, who would have been recognised by any one as a leper, seem to be kept at home by the parents. All of these children are under treatment now. Treatment The treatment of leprosy – as put into practice by the Public Health Service in Surinam – consists of a) injections with alepol in the muscles twice a week; b) taking of chaulmoogra oil, daily as much as can be borne c) ointment of chaulmoogra oil, for daily use as ungent d) chaulmoogra soap for warm baths In the infirmaries, antileprol is also used next to alepol, such in accordance with the opinion of the physician, charged with the treatment. It was given a trial to use natrium salts of chaulmoogra-oil (called by us “chaulmoogran”) instead of alepol. This preparation seems to give good results, but the tenableness [sic] is too scanty for the practice outside the Military Hospital. (Surinam Leprosy Annual Report 1928 (taken from the Annual Report of the Public Health Service 1928, p 1)
1928
Dr Santra conducted a survey at Barpali in the Sambalpur district.[Epidemiology, People][India]
1928
Santo ÂngeloInaugura-se hoje o leprosario de Santo Angelo - A significação dessa iniciativa em face da saude publica paulistana'. From Folha da Manhã , S. Paulo, 3-5-1928. 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
A Leprosy Survey of the Gold Coast Colony carried out. There are three leper asylums: the first at Accra (small asylum on the sea shore) with 46 occupants; the second at Ho, Togoland, north-east of Accra (run by Dr F H Cooke and begun in September 1926) with 150 in-patients and 250 out-patients; and the third, at Yendi (500 miles by road north of Accra) and run by Dr Helen Hendrie, with 60 patients. The estimated incidence of the disease is 7 per 1000. Source: MB Duncan Dixey, “Work in the Gold Coast Colony", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 17-18.[Epidemiology, People][Africa]
1928
Government Institution: listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency[Leprosarium]
1928
Santo ÂngeloLeprosario Santo Angelo - Inaugurou-se, hontem, pela manhã, o notavel asylo-colonia. A cerimonia da entrega do leprosario à Santa Casa. Palavras do sr. presidente Julio Prestes e do senador Padua Salles. Visita às diversas dependencias do Santo Angelo. Diversas notas'. From Correio Paulistano , S. Paulo, 4-5-1928. 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
Feb 27: Question in the House of Commons for the Secretary of State for the Colonies on treatment stations for people with leprosy. Source: Leprosy Notes , 1 1928): 12.[Legislation][Europe]
1928
Emjanyana Leprosy AsylumMacVicar, N, 'Leprosy work in South Africa. A visit to Emjanyana', Leprosy Review 1928 (3) 24. 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][South Africa]
1928
OmdurmanIn Leprosy in Europe, The Middle and Near East and Africa (London: World Dominion Press, 1928), Robert Cochrane states that "The Government is at present financing the work of the Leper Hospital at Omdurman, responsibility for the superintendence of which has been undertaken by the Church Missionary Society." (23)[Leprosarium][Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]
1928
In 1928, the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy was incorporated in New York State as a nonprofit organisation. "Appendix 1 Important Dates and Events in the Scientific Program of the Leonard Wood Memorial" in Forty Years of Leprosy Research: History of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) 1928 to 1967 by Esmond R Long (Washington DC: Office of the Medical Director, Leonard Wood Memorial, 1967)[Organisation]
1928
Leonard Wood Memorial Foundation incorporated.[Organisation]
1928
Zanzibar, Funzi (island) sole population 25 lepers. Source: Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 28.[Epidemiology][Africa]
1928
Acworth Leprosy Hospital (Matoonga)Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency , Bombay: Government Central Press. (Maharashtra State Archives R 3706/2)[Leprosarium][India]
1928
Santo ÂngeloCampos, A C. 'O leprosario de Santo Angelo'. From O Dia , S. Paulo, 14-5-1928. 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
Dr Marie Wardam, CMS Home for Lepers at Purulia, Bihar, India. Source: Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 9.[People][India]
1928
Itu ColonyMacDonald, A B, "Founding a leper colony in Nigeria", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 3. 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][Nigeria]