The recrudescence of leprosy and its causation : a popular treatise.
- William Tebb
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The recrudescence of leprosy and its causation : a popular treatise. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![began to be felt as early as 1828, and in 1841 the National Government, under the direction of President Bolivar, purchased an island four miles east of ]\Iaracaibo, and erected an hospital and dwelling-houses for the accommodation of these afflicted people. In 1876 the cases had assumed alarming numbers, so as to seriously endanger the sanitary future of the State. In the year 1890 there were 125 patients in the lazaretto, and many more at large in the city and environs, and all attempt to segregate them is thwarted by the efforts made by friends for their concealment. This increase here, as in other countries, is coincident with the extension of the practice of vaccination. AUSTRALASIA. Leprosy is not unknown in the Australasian colonies, and is especially noticed in a report dated 7th May, 1890, and ordered to be printed by the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. This report was handed to me by the President of the Board of Health. From it I find that, at the close of 1889, there were 30 cases of leprosy under official cognizance. The Lancet, of August ist, 1891, says that the number of lepers has more than doubled during the past ten years. Referring to the report for 1891 (which has not yet reached me) the Sydney Mail of February 20th, 1892, under the head of Leprosy, observes :— Those of the public who are the least disposed to alarmist views will probably regard as highly serious the statements 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2120603x_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
