Calcutta Medical College established.[Other][India]
1836
PuriPuri Pilgrim House was in existence here, for people who had travelled as part of a pilgrimage to Puri. (Jayadev Sahu, "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984" Unpublished thesis, 1989)[Leprosarium][India]
1836
JesushilfeIt is known that already at the start of the 18th century there were leprosy sufferers in Jerusalem. In 1836 Robinson stated "by the Zion gate are several hovels of leprosy victims. They live together, intermarry, and have very little contact with the rest of the inhabitants" Witztum, Eli, "Jerusalem" collection of articles arranged by Yaron Lorberbaum, Nature Protection Society (Jerusalem 1988): 24-29, cited in Nissim Levy, History of Medicine in the Holy Land : 1799-1948 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House & the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1998), translation by Professor Mark N. Lowenthal.[Leprosarium][Palestine]
1837
Iceland cases number 128 (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Epidemiology][Europe]
1837
Norway Royal Commission.[Other][Europe]
1837
Fiji: Dr Lyth, of the Methodist Mission, treated leprosy.[People][Pacific Islands]
1840
Ballygunge1840 and later at Balliaghatta; Amherst Street[Leprosarium][India]
1840
Almora TLM Hospital and HomeAlmora leprosy asylum was founded by Sir Henry Ramsay, who was stationed there in 1835 and returned in 1840 as a civil officer in Kumauru. (According to a questionairre returned by the Home in 1931 it it was founded in 1836: Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 ).[Leprosarium][India]
1841
Leper asylum founded in Madras. Source: Leprosy Notes 5 (1929): 24 (Royapuram).[Other][India]
1841
Hansen born in Bergen.[People][Europe]
1843
In 1843, Shortland, an extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, described the case of a Maori woman, no older than 30 years old, on the South Island of New Zealand. She had lost her toes and hands, only darkened skin remained on the healed stumps. He considered the case rare, never having seen it on the North Island. (L. Gluckman, “Leprosy in New Zealand before the Twentieth Century” August, 1962)[Other][New Zealand]
1844
Bishop Gainza of the Archdiocese of Nueva Caceres establishes a leprosy hospital in Naga, Ambos Camarines province of the Phillipines[Other][Philippines]
1845
Finland: leper hospital built (Rogers 18).[Other][Europe]
1846
1846 “… as a temporary measure [while a new hospital was to be constructed], a wooden shed had been erected with funds raised by public subscriptions during the later part of 1845. In January 1846, this temporary shed on Pearl’s Hill housed some 146 inmates, ten of whom were diagnosed as suffering from leprosy.” Straits Times January 10, 1846 quoted in A Joshua-Raghavar Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future ,( A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 23[Other][Malaysia]
1846
Hospital dos LázarosMaximiano Marques de Carvalho, 'Huma Visita ao Hospital dos Lázaros'. Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1846:2 (11) 258-9. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1846
Lazaretto, Black RockThe construction of a hospital was first authorized by an Act passed on Jan 24, 1846 (presumably an act of the colonial legislature) (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from materials in a folder labeled Lazaretto and dated November 1974 at the Barbados Museum and Archives)[Leprosarium][West Indies]
1846
Lazaretto, Black RockAn Act to Provide Care and Maintenance of Persons Afflicted with Leprosy, 24 Jan 1846 authorised the care of leprosy affected people at public expense; the purchase of land and buildings; the incarceration of all lepers who were beggars; the appointment of a superintendent and a physician; and the provision of matrons and servants. Any person who voluntarily entered the institution could leave whenever they wished. £10/10s was allocated for each patient, per year. (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from the Barbados Museum and Archives)[Leprosarium][West Indies]
1846
Victoria Leper AsylumFounded in 1846-7. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][India]
1847
By 1847, Malta was included among the seats of leprosy, though it was not apparently commonly encountered. Leprosy Archives: The Maltese Islands compiled by C Savona-Ventura, the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands, the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Malta, 2006.)[Other][Malta]
1847
TocundubaSixty-nine patients. (Araujo, H C S. 'Contribuição á epidemiologia e prophylaxia da lepra no norte do Brasil'. Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz , 1933:27 (3))[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1847
Hospital dos LázarosD'Aquino da Fonseca, J, 'Memória acerca das diferentes espécies de lepra com algumas reflexões críticas fundadas na observação.' Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1847:3 (7) 145-155. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1847
Hospital dos LázarosChichorro da Gama, A P, 'Resultado das experiências feitas com o guano no Hospital dos Lazaros.' Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1847:3 (8) 190-2. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1847
Hospital dos LázarosD'Aquino da Fonseca, J, 'Memória acerca das diferentes espécies de lepra com algumas reflexões críticas fundadas na observação.' Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1847:3 (12) 269-271. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1847
Hospital dos LázarosChronica Medica'. Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1847:4 (1) 4-5. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1847
Atlas Colorie de Spedalskhad and Om Spedalskhed by Danielssen and Boeck (Virchow called this the beginning of the biologic knowledge of leprosy) International Journal of Leprosy: Centennial Festskrift, 1 1873-1973 .[People, Publication]
1847
Senior Surgeon Dr Thomas Oxley reported that leprosy was “decidedly on the increase amongst the Indian 'Transmarine Convicts' in the Singapore Penal Settlement". He listed thirty or more affected by the complaint and recommended that they be segregated … “rather than the general health should suffer they must yield to the only available expediency” (SSR 29 April 1848 cited in A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 24[Other][Malaysia, Singapore]
1848
Hospital dos Lázarosde M Albuquerque Pitta, M A, 'Parecer sobre o assacú'. Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1848:4 (12) 274-9. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1848
Tocundubada Gama Malcher, J, 'História de quatro morphéticos que tem tomado o assacú'. Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1848:4 (7) 156-9. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1848
Lazaretto, Black RockThe history of Barbados states that two acres in St. Michael's parish were purchased for an asylum at £ 271/17/ 6 (Schomburgk’s history) 1848. The buildings were begun but not completed; lunatics were housed here and another appropriation of £2000 was made to build a separate leprosy asylum. The actual start of construction is unknown because records were lost, but 12 July 1853 was given as the date for completion. (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from Schomburgk’s history at the Barbados Museum and Archives)[Leprosarium][West Indies]
1848
The Danish Government, influenced by the noncontagionist views of Danielssen and Boeck, closed the four extant leprosy hospitals in Iceland. The hospitals were rebuilt in 1897. (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Other][Europe]