Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.

  • New South Wales. Department of Public Health
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[1932]
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    103 2.—LEPER LAZARET. REPORT ON LEPROSY IN NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1931 and 1932. The Medical Superintendent of the Coast Hospital to the Director-General of Public Health. The Coast Hospital, Sydney, N S.W. On 1st January, 1931 and 1932, 20 persons remained under detention at the Lazaret. (See Appendix A.) During 1931 3 persons, and in 1932, one person, were reported to the Board under the Public Health Act, 1902, Part Ill, 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. Two deaths occurred during 1931, viz.:—P.P., Case 149; J.B., Case 164. One case was repatriated to Queensland, viz.:—L.B., Case No. 182. No deaths occurred in 1932. Two cases were discharged, viz.:—D.E.O., Case No. 174, and E.W., Case No. 137. 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 187.* Distributed under nationalities, the account stands as follows at 31st December, 1932 :—• Admitted. Readmitted. Discharged. R epatriated. Died Remaining in at 31 Dec., 1932 Whites, of European descent— New South Wales . 50 3 15 2S 10 Victoria . 2 2 Queensland... 4 o 2 0 Northern Territory . 1 1 Western Australia . 1 | 1 New Zealand . 1 1 Fiii ... o 1 ] Rngland ..... 13 3 9 1 Tr p.l,and . 8 2 6 1 i Cr firm any .,..... 4 i 1 2 1 absconded. i 1 i 2 1 i • ♦ • o 1 i i absconded, . i i i i • 1 . i 1 Coloured patients— 3 1 2 1 l 4 (in 1885). 1 1 2 58 absconded. 2 33 19 4 1 1 New Caledonia . 1 . 1 18 5 11 1 1 1 ^o) .. 1 i Syria . 2 ( Hong Kong at own request;. l 1 187 3 36 44 91 19 • This is the number of persons admitted; it does not agree with the highest nnnrber ^i ven in Appendix B in numeral which indicates the number of eases observed, whether admitted or merelj described ai d lecoided. * 93229-1
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