In 1958, Mr Perry Burgess retired as President of the Leonard Wood Memorial "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]
1958
St Joseph's Leprosy HospitalBy the end of 1958, it had developed into a well-equipped hospital with 300 beds. Leprosy Review , Sep 2000, 71.3[Leprosarium][India]
1958
In 1958, Mr Cyril I Crowther was appointed President of the Memorial "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]
1959
In 1959-60, Dr Rudolf L Mayer joined the staff of the Memorial. Drugs were screened for trials in human leprosy. "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]
1959
Princess Zenebework Memorial HospitalThe hospital had 1,250 beds. Source: Dr ND Fraser, "A review of leprosy work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika", Lep Rev , 33.2 (1962): 141-153; on p. 141.[Leprosarium][Ethiopia]
1959
In 1959-65, the metabolism of "non-cultivable" mycobacteria was studied. The principal investigator was J H Hanks. "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]
1959
SIM Selassie LeprosariumListed as having 600 patients in a segregation village with 1,500 outpatients on register. Source: ND Fraser, "A Review of Leprosy Work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika", Leprosy Review 33.2 (1962): 141-153; on p. 141.[Leprosarium][Ethiopia]
1959
In 1959/60, 3 new cases of Hansen's Disease were notified in the State of Queensland .20/100,000 (from the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st December 1963)[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1959
KhokanaMedical care of the 450-500 patients at Khokana became the responsibility of the Governmental health services. Source: Janet Jones, 'Issues in Leprosy and Social Isolation - a Case Study from Nepal', Ph.D. thesis, University of Derby, 2006, p. 182.[Leprosarium][Nepal]
1959
Dr K F Schaller, Chief of the Leprosy Control Service of Ethiopia, presented the results of a survey to the National Leprosy Conference. He estimated 200 000 cases. The incidence varied from 5 to 140 per 1 000 of population. (N D Fraser, “A Review of Leprosy Work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika”, Leprosy Review 33.2 (1962): 141-153.[Epidemiology][Africa, Ethiopia]
1959
Peel Island lazarette closed (400 people)[Other][Australasia]
1959
New leprosaria were opened in San Antâo and Fogo, Cape Verde. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48: p. 339.[Other][Africa]
1959
By the end of the year the government opened 19 more leprosy control units in Orissa.[Epidemiology][India]
1959
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India: "The leprosy survey, education and treatment activity was started in the year 1959 in the Aurangabad district. With a view to expanding hospitalisation facilities and preventing the spread of leprosy, one subsidiary leprosy control centre was opened at Gangapur in 1960. The centre is under the control of the Deputy Director of Public Health services for technical supervision and administration. The unit is having 6 sub-centres and each sub-centre is in charge of a leprosy technician. The unit covers the whole population of 1.5 lakhs of Gangapur and Parthan Taluks. A medical officer has been appointed at the unit having a non-medical assistant to help him. The main function of the unit is survey and treatment. During the year 1968-69 one survey, education and treatment unit was established at Jalma to cover urban population. A voluntary organisation is also working at Aurangabad under the district leprosy association." Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Aurangabad District. Bombay: Gazetteers Department, Gov of Maharashtra, 1977. 1st edn: 1884. 2nd edn (rev): 1977, p. 791.[Other][India]
1959
By 1959, with government financial support, the number of leprosy villages increased to 180, with 8,189 rooms and 17,125 patients, accounting for 72.16% of the total of 23,731 cases in the province[Shandong Province]. Among them most were classified as lepromatous.(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.)[Other][China]
1959
National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園Col A H Marshall lectured on out-patient/domiciliary treatment in order to begin a movement for a change in policy. Ohtani states that this "initiated public awareness on this issue and later materialised as the Ryukyu government's establishment of the New Hansen's Disease Prevention Law and the implementation of domiciliary treatment." (138)[Leprosarium][Japan]
1959
In 1959, Dr Wade retired as Associate Medical Director and Pathologist, becoming Pathologist Emeritus of the Memorial. "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]
1959
Sudan Interior Mission Shashemane LeprosariumThe leprosarium was reported as having 240 beds, and the SIM Shashemane segregation village a further 413. There were also 8,500 outpatients. The need for urgent improvements noted (N D Fraser, "A Review of Leprosy Work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika", Leprosy Review 33.2 (1962): 141-153).[Leprosarium][Ethiopia]
1959
In 1959, the Bacteriology Unit, under Dr Hanks, moved from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, to Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, where much needed additional space was available. "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]
1959
Lady Willingdon SettlementWhen Paul Brand was at CMC Vellore, he wrote in the Chingleput guest book: "I am very glad to revisit this place after several years, and to see the fine buildings coming up to completion. I am even more glad to see the beginning of an active programme of physiotherapy, and social work, and to meet the surgeon who is to begin hand reconstruction. I wish the director every success as he leads his team into a full coordinated programme of research and teaching, and we at Vellore will be more than glad to offer any help that we can , and to profit by mutual cooperation and consultation."[Leprosarium][India]
1959
In 1959, Drs Brodie, Gray and Wallace resigned from the Leonard Wood Memorial Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, to take positions elsewhere. "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]
1959
San AntâoNew leprosaria opened in San Antâo and Fogo. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48, p. 339.[Leprosarium][Cape Verde]
1959
In 1959, Dr Byron S Tepper was appointed Associate Biochemist, Johns Hopkins-Leonard Wood Memorial Leprosy Research Laboratory, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. "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]
1959
FogoNew leprosaria opened in San Antâo and Fogo. A Loretti, and D Garbellini, 'Leprosy in the Cape Verde Islands', Leprosy Review (1981), 52: 337-48, p. 339.[Leprosarium][Cape Verde]
1960
In 1960, the LWM was recipient of a WHO grant for the experimental transmission of leprosy. The investigator was Y T Chang. "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]
1960
Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India: a high incidence of leprosy was reported for Kolhapur. A leprosy colony accommodated 150 persons at Kolhapur and was under the control of the Civil Surgeon. Following the application of the Leprosy Act to the District of Kolhapur and adjoining districts it became the responsibility of the state to isolate (at least) the positive cases with active lesions to prevent the spread of the disease. To deal with this problem, the Government sanctioned the opening of a Leprosy Control Centre at Shahuwadi in this district, as scheduled to open before the end of the financial year. Source: Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Kolhapur District. Bombay: Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications. Maharashtra State 1960. 1st edn. 1886. 2nd (rev) 1960, p. 780.[Other][India]
1960
In 1960/61, 2 new cases of Hansen's Disease were notified in the State of Queensland .13/100,000 (from the Statistics for the Commonwealth at 31st December 1963)[Epidemiology][Australasia]
1960
National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園"Dr Masashi Namba, the Director of Medical Affairs Department of Tama Zenshoen Sanatorium, and Dr Tadashi Takizawa from the Ministry of helth and Welfare visited Okinawa to study how Hansen's disease was being delath with. They submitted their observations and opinions as a report. During the course of their visit, they learned that the treatment of Hansen's disease had reached a major turning point dating from the statement that Colonel Marshall had made in 1958. Their report also indicated that the `Hansen's Disease prevention Law', unique to Okinawa was enacted the following year (1959) as a direct result of the colonel's statement. … It was obvious that what was being implemented in Okinawa was revolutionary." (Ohtani 138)[Leprosarium][Japan]
1960
In 1960, under the direction of Dr Rudolf L Mayer, a three-year study was commenced on the detailed structure of the leprosy bacillus, as revealed by the electron microscope. Temporary space was provided by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. 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]
1960
Lazaretto, Black RockThe Barbados archives suggest that the hospital was closed between 1960 and 1963. (Cited from notes provided by Gerald F. Schroedl, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from the Barbados Museum and Archives)[Leprosarium][West Indies]