Leprosy in India : summary of reports, furnished by the government of British India to his Hawaiian Majesty's government, as to the prevalence of leprosy in India, and the measures adopted for the social and medical treatment of persons afflicted with the disease.
- Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs.
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Leprosy in India : summary of reports, furnished by the government of British India to his Hawaiian Majesty's government, as to the prevalence of leprosy in India, and the measures adopted for the social and medical treatment of persons afflicted with the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![[enclosube.] QUESTIONS REGARDING LEPROSY. The following interrogatories were prepared in 1862 for the Brit- ish Government by a Committee of the Royal College of Physicians to assist in a similar enquiry to that now being instituted by the Hawaiian Government. Although some of them call for informa- tion of a technical character, which few persons are able to furnish, it has been thought desirable to produce them in full. The informa- tion more particularly desired is as to the prevalence of the disease, the way in which, by law or by custom, lepers are dealt with, the accommodation provided for them by the State or by private charity, and all available facts bearing on the question whether leprosy is or is not contagious in each stage of development: 1— Is leprosy known in ... ? If so, be pleased briefly to describe it as it occurs there. ( a. Are there several different forms or outward manifesta- tions of leprosy? If so, by what names are they respectively known? b. Are these several forms, in yOur opinion, only varieties of one common morbid state? or are they specifically distinct diseases, having no affinity with each other? c. PlQase enumerate succinctly the more obvious and distin- guishing characters of each form of leprosy which you have seen. 2— At what age does the disease generally manifest itself, and what are usually the earliest symptoms observable? 3— At what period of life and within what time does the disease usually attain its full development? and at what period of life, and after what time, does it usually prove fatal? 4— Is the disease more frequent in one sex than in the other? If so, in what proportion? 5— Is it more frequent among certain races? among the white, the colored or the black population ? and in what relative propor- tions? 6— In what condition of society is the disease of most frequent occurrence, and what are the circumstances which seem to favor its development in individuals, or in groups of individuals?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040132_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
