Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

  • Timothy Richards Lewis
Date:
1877
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Credit: Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the disease in accordance with the most recent ofi&cial re- turns. Every district in the country was separately picked out on maps drawn on a large scale and tinted in accordance with the ratios found in the various columns in the original Census Reports, and the sheets were subsequently reduced to more portable dimensions. We have to acknowledge the great assistance which we obtained from Captain Water- house, Assistant Surveyor-General of India, in carrying out this scheme. A glance at this map shows that there are three dis- tricts—large tracts of the country—where leprosy prevails to an extraordinary extent; namely, Beerbhoom and Ban- coorah in the Burdwan division of Lower Bengal; the Kumaun division of the North-Western Provinces, extend- ing across the southern range of the Himalayas; and the Deccan and Konkan divisions of the Bombay Presidency. The latter area, considered as a whole, does not show such an extreme prevalence as the two others : leprosy is, however, extremely prevalent, and in some districts, such as Barsi, Sowda, and Rajapur, abounds to a degree as great as is manifested in Beerbhoom, Bancoorah, and Kumaun. Total number of Lepers in the three Presidencies. The accompanying summarised Tabular Statement shows „, „ „ , - that there are more than ninety- The Summary Table. • j^i i i nine thousand leprous persons lu British India alone, or at the rate of fifty-four cases in every hundred thousand of the population :— TABLE 1.—Shoioing the Numher of Leprous Persons, and the Propor- tion in the Three Presidencies, together with the Total Popxdation on which the Ratios have been calcidaied. Total Population on which the Leper-ratios have been calculated. Total Lepers. Proportion of Lepers iu every 10,000 [Ten Thousand] of tho Population. Bengal Presidency 135,456,138 71,287 5-2 Madras ditto 31,152,272 13,944 4-4 Bombay ditto 16,228,774 13,842 8-5 Grand Total in British India, 182,837,184 99,073 5-4
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