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1. NAME OF INSTITUTION FOR LEPROSY.
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No, of Patients,
No. of Beds.
At beginning of year.
At end of year,
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
PAPERS
RELATING TO
LEPROSY IN CERTAIN BRITISH COLONIES.
With the object of collecting information to be laid before the Second Inter- national Scientific Conference on Leprosy, appointed to be held at Bergen from the 16th to the 19th of August, 1909, under the patronage of His Majesty the King of Norway, a circular despatch was addressed by the Earl of Crewe, K.G., Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Crown Colonies and Protectorates covering the following list of questions which had been drawn up under the advice of the Local Government Board. The despatch attached special importance to the tables under "A" and "E."
LIST OF QUESTIONS RESPECTING LEPROSY.
A.-Number of known Cases-—
Year.
No. of New Cases of Leprosy recognised during the year,
Total No. of cases known to be present
Country in the
Colony
No. of Deaths from Leprosy during the year.
in the year.
Estimated popula. tion of the
Country Colony.
* Where these figures cannot be given, please state average number of patients.
F-Kindly send any printed reports dealing with the history or management of leprosy in
the Colony or Protectorate.
The Governments from which replies have been received are as follows:-
Mediterranean-Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta.
West African-Gambia, Gold Coast, Northern Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
Southern Nigeria.
East and South African-Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, East African Protectorate, Nyasaland, Somaliland, Southern Rhodesia, Swaziland, Uganda.
West Indian-Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Hon- duras, Grenada, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad, and Tobago. Eastern-British North Borneo, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Seychelles,
Straits Settlements. Miscellaneous-Falkland Islands, Fiji, Western Pacific (Tonga), St. Helena. Leprosy has not been recorded in Somaliland or the Falkland Islands.
For the purpose of this report it has been considered advisable to classify the information supplied in a form convenient for reference, instead of printing replies in full. Some specimens of Colonial legislation have been added, but the bulk of the Colonial Acts and Ordinances, and regulations made thereunder, have not been included.
Number of known Cases.
A.
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
C.O.
885
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Colony or Protectorate.
Year.
No. of New Cases of Leprosy recognised during the year.
Total No. of Cases known to be present during the year
No. of Deaths from Leprosy during the year.
Estimated Population.
Cyprus
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
Gibraltar
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
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107
19
111
12
107
13
111
12
107
12
106
12
108
6
109
109
96
95
98
1
1
1
1
Malta"
1900
81
1901
1902
1903
Foot
81
10
61
61
67
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209,286 (1891 census).
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237,022
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9
9
17
4
24,000
183,679
188,141
4
193,315
4
197,070
B.-Distribution of Cases———
1. As to whether on the littoral or inland, or any other facts of interest as to grouping
of cases.
2. Any facts bearing on possible relation of the distribution of cases to race, soil, food,
or other conditions.
C-Notification of Cases—
1. Is the disease compulsorily notifiable?
2. If so, after what duration of illness are cases usually notified P
D.-Administrative Control-
1. What action is taken after notification of cases, or apart from such notification
us to-
E.-Segregation
(a) Disinfection.
(b) Segregation of patients.
(c) Other measures.
How is segregation effected?
Where practicable, please give the following information for each asylum.
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* NOTE--In 1893 an Ordinance was passed for checking the spread of leprosy and the construction of an asylum was undertaken. The male wards were completed in 1899 and the Ordinance was brought into operation as regards male lepers only from the 16th January, 1900,
(18969-3.) Wt, 12032-G 20, 1000, 8/09, D & E.
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