Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1930]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2.—LEPER LAZARET. REPORT ON LEPROSY IN NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1930. The Medical Superintendent of the Coast Hospital to the Director-General of Public Health. Sir, The Coast Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W, On 1st January, 1930, 20 persons remained under detention at the lazaret. (See Appendix A.) During the year 4 persons were reported to the Board under the Public Health Act, 1902, Part III, as being suspected lepers, and after careful inquiry were duly certified as suffering from leprosy, and admitted to the lazaret by warrant of the Board. Four deaths occurred during the year, viz.:—J.F., Case 131; A.W., Case 157; E.S.G., Case 171; E.W., Case 179. The total number of persons admitted since 1883, when patients first began to be received (though the notification of leprosy was first made compulsory and the detention of lepers provided for by law only towards the end of 1890), is 183.* Distributed under nationalities, the account stands as follows:— ' Admitted. ! Readmitted. ! Discharged. Repatriated. Died 1 Remaining in at 31 Dec., 193tl. Whites, of European descent— New South Wales . 48 3 » 1 28 8 Victoria . . 2 2 Queensland... 4 1 2 1 Northern Territory . 1 1 Western Australia . 1 I New Zealand . 1 1 Fiji . 2 1 1 England ... 12 3 9 Ireland .... 8 2 5 1 Scotland . 1 1 Germany . 4 1 1 2 Belgium ..... 1 absconded. i TJ.S. America. 1 i Greece. 2 1 1 Malta ... 2 1 i Sweden . ,t. 1 absconded. i France . 1 i ]VT an ri t\n s ... I 1 1 1 Coloured patients— ew Soilt,h Wales t T t. 3 1 2 Indies . .. 1 1 4 (in 1885). 1 1 2 China . . 57 absconded. 2 33 19 3 1 1 r ... . 1 . 1 18 5 11 2 1 i . .. ] 1 2 . (to Hong Kong at own request). l i [ * 183 3 34 43 89 20 • This is the number of persons admitted ; it does not agree with the highest number given in Appendix 1. in nurneialii which indicates the number of cases observed, whether admitted or merely described and recorded. *49259—M](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485212_0151.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
