Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1926]
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. THIRTY-SIXTH REPORT ON LEPROSY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1926. Sir, The Medical Superintendent of the Coast Hospital to the Director-General of Public Health. The Coast Hospital, Sydney, N.S.W. On 1st January, 1926, 17 persons remained under detention at the lazaret. (See Appendix A.) During the year 1 person was admitted as being a suspected leper. He was placed under observation on 8th May and discharged on 21st July, 1926. One death occurred during the year, viz., C. T., admitted in 1886 (Case XVII). There was 1 discharge during the year, viz , H. P., admitted in 1925 (Case CLXX). 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 171.* Distributed undet nationalities, the account stands as follows:— Admitted. Re-admitted. Discharged. Repatriated. Died. Remaining] in at 31 Dec., 1925. Whites, of European descent— New South Wales . 43 2 1 15 24 5 Victoria . . 1 1 Queensland... 2 1 1 Northern Territory . 1 1 New Zealand. 1 1 Fiji . 2 1 1 England . 12 3 2 8 1 Ireland. 8 5 1 Scotland . 1 1 derma,ny.. 4 1 1 2 1 absconded. 1 ltT11Ttt.rtt. TTtSt Auiorica. ,,,... 1 1 Orp.p.cG T11,, t,,, ,.. 9 2 1 1 1 1 Xwpflon . lf. 1 absconded, 1 1 1 Coloured patients— 0 1 1 1 1 (in 1885). Tnrlin . 4 1 1 2 • •• « absconded. 50 2 33 19 2 1 1 1 • • * . • 1 1 5 11 2 1 1 . .... 1 1 (to Hong Kong at own request!. 2 l 1 171 1 33 43 81 15 * This is the number of persons admitted ; it does not agree wun tne nignest uumu b recorded Roman numerals, which indicates the number of cases observed, whether admitted or merely desc Thus the number remaining in the lazaret on 31st December, 1926, was 15persons; 11 males and 4 females. . Appendix A shows particulars of each case under detention since the year 1883, and in Appendix 1 arc given the usual notes of the new patients received during 1926, of patients discharged or died during the year, and a survey of the condition of patients remaining in at the end of the year, 43531— N](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485170_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
