The Medical Committee on Leprous Convicts was formed consisting of the Senior Surgeon and two Medical Officers. [to report on whether the disease was “contagious or infectious” and whether isolation was “an absolute necessity”] Its report was forwarded to the Governor by the Resident. SSR 12 May 1848 quoted in A Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future , (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, West Malaysia, 1983): 25[Other][Malaysia, Singapore]
1848
TocundubaDecember - The death rate among the sixty-seven patients in the hospital is 1:3. (Nobre, M A. 'Relatório sobre a cura da morféa através da assacú', December 1848, Santa Maria de Belém, Pará. In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1848
TocundubaSeventy-seven 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]
1848
Hospital dos LázarosRaposo, J M, 'Observação de um caso de elephantiase dos gregos'. Archivo Médico Brasileiro , 1848:4 (5) 109-111. (In Biblioteca Nacional)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1849
Norway: Lungegaarde Hospital opened near Bergen under Dr Danielssen (Ehlers quoted in Rogers 17).[Other][Europe]
1849
LungegaardsFounded.[Leprosarium][Norway]
1850
Spain: a person with leprosy from the Philippines was reputed to have settled at Parcent, and by 1887, there were sixty cases of the disease in the area; by 1914, 898 cases; and by 1941, 928 (Leloir and Gehr quoted in Rogers 22).[Epidemiology][Europe, South-East Asia]
1850
RajkotEstablished by chiefs of Kathiawar, Major donor Takore Saheb of Shavnagar[Leprosarium][India]
1850
Almora TLM Hospital and HomeIn 1850, Almora was handed over to the London Missionary Society. It was supported by the Mission to Lepers.[Leprosarium][India]
1851
Almora TLM Hospital and HomeUnder charge of Rev. J H Budden, LMS[Leprosarium][India]
1851
Almora TLM Hospital and HomeIt was managed by the London Missionary Society from 1851 until 1926. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098.[Leprosarium][India]
1852
Hospital dos Lazaros da BahiaAzevedo, T G. 'Regulamento do Hospital de São Christovão dos Lazaros da Bahia.- Hospital e Quinta dos Lazaros, 6 de Setembro de 1852. Elaborado pelo seu fundador D. Rodrigo José de Menezes'. Arq. Pub. Baía , 1852. 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]
1852
São LazaroAlves Branco Junior, J M, 'Extracto de jornaes de medicina - Jornal da Sociedade Pharmaceutica Lusitana'., Gazeta dos Hospitais do Rio de Janeiro , 1852:2 (23) 363-6. (In Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[Leprosarium][Portugal]
1853
Professor F J Mouat of the Bengal Medical Service introduced chaulmoogra oil to Western medicine for the treatment of leprosy (Feeny Ch 12).[People, Treatment][India]
1854
Mouat's publication in the Indian Annals of Medical Science .[People, Publication]
1854
Leprosy asylum established at Karbata, District Almora, India. Source: Dongre, History of Leprosy in India , p 54.[Other][India]
1854
The first account published in a medical journal, known of by Gluckman, was entitled “An Account of the Disease called Ngerengere by the New Zealanders ( Lepra Gangraenosa )” and published in 1854 in the British and Foreign Medical – Chirurgical Review by Arthur Thomson, MD, Surgeon to the 58th Regiment. (L. Gluckman, “Leprosy in New Zealand before the Twentieth Century” August, 1962)[Other][New Zealand]
1854
Robben IslandDescribed by William Loney, in "Leprosy at the Cape", 1854. (The ILA Global Project on the History of Leprosy is not responsible for the content of external sites.)[Leprosarium][South Africa]
1854
Amballa (Ambala)The asylum was founded. Source: League of Nations Archive: File 29098 and Report on Leprosy and its Control in India by the Committee appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Health (1941). Government of India Press, New Dehli, 1942, p. 59.[Leprosarium][India]
1855
Successful use of chaulmoogra oil in China (Hobson) International Journal of Leprosy: Centennial Festskrift, 1 1873-1973 .[Treatment][China]
1855
Norway: almost 3000 cases. Source: RG Cochrane, "Leprosy in Scandinavia", Leprosy Review , 24.1 (1953): 5-7.[Epidemiology][Europe, Scandinavia]
Norway: census, 2 079 cases 1.91 per mille.[Epidemiology][Europe]
1857
Successful use of chaulmoogra oil in Bengal (Mouat) International Journal of Leprosy: Centennial Festskrift, 1 1873-1973 .[Treatment][India]
1857
1857-1859 - Construction of the building that was to serve as the Carville center's administration building-designed by the notable New Orleans architect Henry Howard, who also designed Nottoway Mansion and other Mississippi River Road historic plantation manor houses, located on Louisiana's famous Great River Road. (Daughters of Charity, West Central Province Archives, “Record Group 11-2, Records of the National Hansen’s Disease Programs, Carville, Louisiana, Marillac Provincialate, St. Louis, Missouri”)[Other][Carville, North America]
1857
Carville1857-1859 - Construction of the Center's Administration building - designed by the notable New Orleans architect, Henry Howard, who also designed Nottoway Mansion and other Mississippi River Road historic plantation manor houses, located on Louisiana's famous Great River Road. ( http://bphc.hrsa.gov/nhdp/HISTORY_MAIN_PAGE.htm )[Leprosarium][USA]
1857
Pleiestiftelsen for Spedalske Nr 1Founded.[Leprosarium][Norway]
1858
Administration of India transferred to the Crown. The Indian Medical Service becomes the responsibility of the British Government, as distinct from Army Medical Department.[Other][Europe, India]
1858
Tarn TaranAt Armritsar - government institution[Leprosarium][India]