In 1946, Mr Burgess, Drs Karsner, Soule and Rodriguez of the Leonard Wood Memorial participated in the Second Pan American Conference on Leprosy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "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]
1946
Santo Ângelo1 604 patients. Director - Dr Manoel de Abreu. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
Bomfim268 patients. Director - Dr Almir Menezes. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
Amparo Santa Cruz (preventório)126 children. Director - Ilza Chaves Barcelos. Leprologist - Dr Pessoa Mendes. Pediatrician - Dr Stela Budianski. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
Santa Isabel2 081 patients. Director - Dr Delor L Ferreira. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
The annual report on leprosy in Queensland noted that “Treatment with promin began on 23rd January, 1947 with 4 cases; 16 cases were being treated by the end of January and by the end of April, the maximum of 20 cases was reached. … While it is yet too early to estimate the full value of promin on this small series, the results so far are full of promise and it is felt that it can safely be said that this is the greatest step forward that has been seen in Queensland. (Health Department, Eric J Reye, Medical Officer in Charge, F Mahony, Superintendent “Leprosy” Annual Report extract: 1946-47)[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1946
Pirapitinguí2 817 patients. Director - Dr Francisco Ribeiro Arantes. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
Carpina170 patients. Director - Dr Diogenes Rebelo. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1946
São Tarcisio (preventório)228 children. Director - Berenice Martins Prates. Leprologist - Dr Abrahão Salomão. Pediatrician - Dr Oiavo de Barros. Araujo, H C S, História da Lepra no Brasil, Vol II, Período Republicano (1889-1946) , Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1948.[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1947
By December 368 patients were registered at the Colónia Rovisco Pais Hospital, Portugal[Other][Europe]
1947
St Giles Home for British LepersShort letter entitled "The Homes of St. Giles for British Lepers", in the British Journal of Dermatology , 59.12 (1947): 433.[Leprosarium][United Kingdom]
Hospital Colónia Rovisco PaisOn September 7th, Inauguration of the Hospital Colonia Rovisco Pais, also known as Leprosaria Nacional Rovisco Pais, in Tocha (Cantanhede, Portugal). It was extinguished in 1996 and converted into the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine of the Centro Region – Rovisco Pais. Em 7 de setembro, Inauguração do Hospital colónia Rovisco Pais, também conhecido por Leprosaria Nacional Rovisco Pais, na Tocha (Cantanhede, Portugal). Foi extinto em 1996 e convertido no Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação da Região Centro – Rovisco Pais.[Leprosarium][Portugal]
1947
From October 30 to November 1, 1947, Pandit Lingaraj Misra the Health Minister of Orissa partipated at the First All India Leprosy Workers Conference at Sevagram.[People][India]
1947
Hospital Colónia Rovisco PaisBy Decree-Law No. 36.450/47, all Portuguese patients with contagious leprosy must be admitted in Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais. Pelo Decreto-lei n.º 36.450/47 foi estabelecida a obrigatoriedade de internamento hospitalar a todos os doentes portugueses portadores de hanseníase contagiante.[Legislation, Leprosarium][Portugal]
1947
"When the Communists came to power in 1947, they assumed responsibility for a poverty-stricken dismembered country devastated by the ravages of decades of civil war and Japanese occupation, and the resulting social chaos. The medical schools were in disarray, and health services were practically nonexistent except for the favoured few in some big towns. Infantile mortality was 200 per thousand; the life expectancy was 35 years, and the major causes of death were the transmissible and infectious diseases. Malnutrition was widespread, and agricultural production at a low ebb. There may have been as many as 10,000 “Western trained” doctors in the whole country, but these were mainly concentrated in the large towns and engaged in private practice. There were 40 institutions for leprosy sufferers, principally providing custodial care along the then accepted lines; 39 of these were run by “foreigners”, that is Christian Missionaries. A quarterly journal on leprosy was published by the Mission to Lepers, Shanghai Branch – an excellent and very influential publication". (Stanley Browne, “Medical Services behind the Bamboo Curtain”, an unpublished paper given at the Eighteenth Meeting of the International Association of Physicians for the Overseas Services , Friday, November 27th, 1981.)[Other][China]
1947
In 1947, a Bacteriology section was established by Dr Hanks at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, where tissue culture and biochemical studies are pursued for 13 years on rat and human leprosy bacilli "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]
1947
The annual report on leprosy in Queensland noted that "The results of promin therapy may be regarded as highly satisfactory in view of the fact that a number of cases receiving it were in a very serious condition and that at the end of twelve months were out of danger. The effect of promin was characterized by rapid healing of numerous ulcers, subsidence of macules, and by increase in weight, appetite, and morale.” (Eric J Reye, Medical Officer in Charge, F Mahony, Superintendent “Leprosy” Health Department Annual Report extract: 1947-48)[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1947
Dr Ross Innes arrived as Inter-territorial Leprologist for East Africa in general and began leprosy surveys. Further, 200,000 sulphetrone tablets were ordered for use in 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, Treatment][Africa, Uganda, Uganda, Uganda]
1947
Cochrane: Leprosy in Theory and Practice[People, Publication]
1947
Peru: Vida de una Leprosa . Lima: La Reforma Medica. A first person account of being afflicted with leprosy in Peru.[Publication][Peru, South America]
1947
First All India Leprosy Workers’ Conference at Wardha, India, blessed by Gandhiji and Vinobaji (Dongre, ILA History Workshop, July 2000)[Conference/Congress, People][India]
1947
National Sanatorium Kuryu Rakusen-en 国立療養所栗生楽泉園The use of the maximum security cell was exposed in the newspapers and reported and debated in the Diet (Ohtani)[Leprosarium][Japan]
1947
Diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS) introduced as treatment for leprosy[Treatment]
1947
Santa FéDirector - Dr Atos Teixeira. Administrator - Clarivaldo Rodrigues da Silva.. (From timeline supplied by Sanatório Santa Fé)[Leprosarium][Brazil]
1947
The Colónia Rovisco Pais Hospital in Portugal is officially opened: its facilities included two asylums, two pavilions for capable individuals, six houses for labourers, one pavilion for the infectious, eight family blocks with eighteen houses each, the hospital and other facilities, such as workshops.[Other][Europe]
1947
San PabloLife on the colony was described in Vida de Leprosa . Lima: La Reforma Medica, 1947. Source: Marcos Cueto, "Social Medicine and 'Leprosy'", The Americas, 61.1 (2004): 55-80.[Leprosarium][Peru]
1948
Kenya: In Kenya, in 1948, only 291 cases were under treatment. A survey was due to be carried out, and it was reported that Colonial Development Funds were available, but sulphones had not yet been obtained. (Leonard Rogers, "Leprosy Incidence and Control in East Africa, 1924-1952 and the Outlook" Leprosy Review 25.1 (1954): 41-59)[Epidemiology, People][Africa, Kenya]
1948
In 1948, at the Fifth International Leprosy Congress, in Havana, a resolution was passed recommending that use of the word "leper" be abandoned. Stanley Stein writes this: "the Havana Congress agreed unanimously 'that the use of the term 'leper' in designation of the patient with leprosy be abandoned, and the person suffering from the disease be designated 'leprosy patient'". ( Alone No Longer 331)[Conference/Congress, People][Carville]
1948
Sungai BulohThe first trials with dapsone in Malaysia (1948-49) were carried out in this leprosarium. Trials of alternative drugs formed a major part of the investigations. A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future , ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 8-9[Leprosarium][Malaysia]