Tocunduba291 patients in total at end of year: seventy-three admitted; thirteen dismissed; thirty-three 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]
1928
Leonard Rogers reports that the League of Nations Health Committee have appointed a Leprosy Commission of Experts (including Colonel J O Graham – member of the Indian Council) to plan for an international investigation of leprosy. “Good Progress of Modern Prophylaxis Against Leprosy" Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 10.[People][India]
1928
Aimorés (Aymorés)Lima, P. 'Leprosario regional de Aymorés.- Parecer sobre a escolha do local, S. Paulo, 1.° de Outubro de 1927'. Baurú-Med. , 1928:1 (6) 126. 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
St Gerardus MajellaSurinam 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)[Leprosarium][Dutch Guiana]
1928
Dichpali Leprosy Hospital in the Nizam of Hyderbad's Dominions (begun in 1916) (run by Rev G M Kerr and Mrs Isabel Kerr). Census returns indicate 4,214 people with leprosy with hospital provision for 400. Estimated numbers equal 40,000. Source: Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 19.[Epidemiology][India]
1928
Sudan: As the second part, Leprosy in Europe, The Middle and Near East and Africa (London: World Dominion Press, 1928), of his attempt to carry out a world survey of leprosy, Robert G Cochrane wrote that it was difficult to give anything near a correct estimate of leprosy in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.There was apparently little leprosy in Northern and Central Sudan (probably only 350 affected, allowing for early cases), and in the Nuba Mountains Provinces there may have been 500. But in the extreme south (in the Mongalla and Bahr-el-Ghazal provinces), there were at least 1,000 in each province. Indeed, in some parts of the south, the incidence may have been as high as twenty per thousand, and it was doubtful if these figures included many early cases. (23)[Epidemiology, Organisation, People][Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan]
1928
Tanganyika: treatment centres established as “leper villages”; 42 leper camps; 3,299 segregated lepers (often in the care of Medical Missions) J O Shircore, Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, “Leprosy Work in Tanganyika", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 11.[Epidemiology, Treatment][Africa]
1928
Abyssinia: Dr TA Lambie, Sudan Interior Mission.[People][Africa]
1928
Taluka Mahad (TLM Trust Hospital Poladpur)Listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency, Bombay: Government Central Press. (MSA R 3706/2)[Leprosarium][India]
1928
Yanzhou LeprosariumYanzhou Leprosarium in Shandong Province, China, was opened in 1928. "Chen Shumin, Liu Dingchang, Liu Bing, Zhang Lin and Yu Xioulu, "Role of Leprosy Villages and Leprosaria in Shandong Province, People's Republic of China: Past, Present and Future" Leprosy Review , 74 (2003): 222-8.[Leprosarium][China]
1928
Executive Committee of BELRA report "Some Questions of Empire Suffering", Leprosy Notes , 5 (April 1929: 1) attracted comment in The Times .[Organisation]
1928
Aimorés (Aymorés)Pupo, A & Alvaro, M. 'Leprosario regional de Aymorés.- Estudo de um typo de "leprosario modelo".' Baurú-Med. , 1928:1 (6,7) 127 and 148. 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
Ahmedabad Kagda Petit (Kagrapeth) HospitalGovernment Institution: listed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency[Leprosarium][India]
1928
Report of AB MacDonald, missionary doctor with the United Free Church of Scotland Mission established Itu in Nigeria: Leprosy Notes 1 (1928): 3.[People][Africa]
1928
Uganda: Cochrane reported that "Of the prevalence of leprosy in Uganda, the principal Government Medical Officer reports that 'the incidence is estimated at two per thousand of the population. Legal powers which enforce segregation of leprosy are embodied in the Infectious Disease Ordinance of 1922, but these are mostly exercized in townships only; if carried further, antagonism might result among the natives.' There are Leper Camps in Busiro, Teso, Budo and Bunyoro: there is no fixed staff, but the Government Medical Officer of the district and members of his staff visit the hospitals, dispensaries and camps where regular treatment is given." Source: Robert Cochrane, Leprosy in Europe. The Middle East and near East and Africa , London: World Dominion Press, 1928.[Epidemiology, Legislation, Organisation, Treatment][Africa, Uganda]
1928
Nyasaland (Zomba managed under a doctor of the Church of Scotland Mission) C F Birkenstock of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission: "A Central African Treatment Centre", Leprosy Notes , 3 (1928): 13.[Treatment][Africa]
1928
Leprosy work carried out in Southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, bordering on Uganda and the Belgian Congo, written about by K G Fraser, Vilu, S Sudan in Leprosy Notes , 2 (1928): 16.[People][Africa]
1928
SholapurListed in Public Health Organisation in the Bombay Presidency , Bombay: Government Central Press. (MSA R 3706/2)[Leprosarium][India]
1928
Kiulungkiang"Our colony was established February 1, 1928 with two patients and since then 160 have been enrolled." (Curtis M Galt, 'Kiulungkiang', in James L Maxwell, "Ridding China of Leprosy" The China Medical Journal 44 (1930): 781)[Leprosarium][China]
1929
I Santra operating PTS centres; 3414 being treated: Leprosy Notes , 4 (1929): 9.[Epidemiology, Treatment]
1929
PTS (Propaganda, Survey, Treatment) approach to leprosy control adopted by Muir.[People, Treatment]
1929
Maclaren Leper HospitalAraujo, H C S, 'India: Leprosario de Naini'. Extract from A Lepra - Estudos realizados em 40 paizes - 1924-1927 - Work of Insitituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 1929, 238. 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][India]
1929
International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cairo.[Conference/Congress][Africa]
1929
McKean Leprosy HospitalCom os leprosos de Sião.-Tradução de L N Keysel'. Bol. Soc. Ass. Laz. Def. c. Lep. , 1929:1 (5) 9. 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][Siam]
1929
Minobu JinkyoenOhtani states that in 1929, the second national meeting on leprosy was convened by the prefectural Government of Osaka. At this meeting, Rev Ryumyo Tsunawaki announced that , as long as leprosy was detected in the early stages and treated, it was difficult for a person to identify a patient having leprosy even if he or she was living with the patient. He also clearly stated that when detected and treated at an early stage, treating the patient to the point at which it would be possible to consider him or her cured was not at all difficult.[Leprosarium][Japan]
1929
Ceylon "Leprosy Work in Ceylon: Mantivu Island Leper Colony" run by Dr J P Felix and Franciscan Sisters Leprosy Notes , 5 (1929): 27-8.[Other][India]
1929
BELRA Grants for Leprosy Work listed in Leprosy Notes 4 (1929): 2 Committee of the Uganda Branch of the Association; Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Malamulo, Nyasaland; Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Mwami, Northern Rhodesia; United Free Church Mission, Bandawe, Nyasaland; Sudan United Mission for Nigerian stations; Sudan United Mission, Vom, N Nigeria; Bethel Mission, Tanga, Tanganyika; Dr Peacock, Leprosy Clinic, Mandalay; American Mission, Nasser, Sudan; Dutch Reformed Church Mission, Madzimoyo, N Rhodesia; Church of Scotland Mission, Kikuyu, Kenya; London Missionary Society, Kawimbe, N Rhodesia; Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Gendia, Kenya.[Organisation][Africa]
1929
National Sanatorium Oshima Seisho-en / Ohshima Hospital 国立療養所大島青松園Danner, L, 'Carta de 14-12-1925 sobre a Leprosaria de Oshima e a villa de leprosos de Kusatsu'. From A Lepra - Estudos realizados em 40 paizes - 1924-1927 , H C Souza Araujo. - Work of Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 1929, 109. 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][Japan]
1929
"Facilities for the Study of Leprosy in Great Britain" Andrew Balfour (Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Leprosy Notes , 5 (1929): 23-4.[People][Europe]
1929
San Francisco de BorjaAraujo, H C S. 'Hespanha: Leprosario de Fontilles'. A Lepra - Estudos realizados em 40 paizes - 1924-1927 , Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, 1929. 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][Spain]