Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1936]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![100 2.—LEPER LAZARET. REPORT ON LEPR08Y IN NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1936. On 1st January, 1936, eighteen (18) persons remained under detention at the Lazaret. During 1936 three persons, two males and one female, were reported to the Board under the Public Health Act, 1902, Part III, as being suspected lepers, and after careful inquiry, they were duly certified as suffering from leprosy and were admitted to the Lazaret by warrant of the Board (one of these cases was transferred to Peel Island, Queensland, shortly after his admission). One case, E.C.H.L. (case No. 187), was discharged, and two cases, A.N. (case No. 188) and J.H.C. (case No. 191), were transferred to the Lazaret at Peel Island, Queensland. W.L. (case No. 184), a Chinese, was repatriated to China. One death occurred during 1936, i.e., G.S. (case No. 88). The total number of persons admitted since 1883, when patients were first received (though the notification of leprosy was first made compulsory and the detention of lepers provided for by law only towards the end of 1900), is 194. Distributed under nationalities, the account stands as follows at 31st December, 1936 Remaining Admitted. Readmitted. Discharged. Repatriated. Died. in at 31 Dec., 1936. Whites, of European descent— New South Wales . 53 3 15 32 9 Victoria . 3 1 2 Queensland..... 5 3 2 Northern Territory . 1 1 2 Western Australia . 1 ] New Zealand. 1 1 Fiji . 2 1 ] England . . . 13 3 9 1 Ireland. 8 2 6 Scotland.. 1 1 Germany ... 5 2 1 2 1 absconded. Belgium . 1 i U.S. America. 1 i Greece. 2 1 Malta ... 2 1 i absconded. Sweden . 1 i France. 1 i Mauritius . 1 1 Italy.. 1 1 Coloured patients— New South Wales ... 3 ] i 1 West Indies .. . 1 1 (in 1885). India .. . 4 1 1 2 absconded. China . 58 . 2 34 20 2 Straits Settlements . 1 1 J ava... 1 1 New Caledonia .. 1 1 Pacific Islands ... 18 6 11 1 Egypt..... 1 1 Zanzibar . .... 1 1 (Hong Kong Syria ... 2 l 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485273_0170.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
