Leprosy (International Scientific Congress of 1909) : copy of report / of Arthur Newsholme and Sir Malcolm Morris ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.
- Newsholme, Arthur, 1857-1943.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Leprosy (International Scientific Congress of 1909) : copy of report / of Arthur Newsholme and Sir Malcolm Morris ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![0 3„ It must be left to the legally constituted authorities, after consultation with the sanitary authorities, to determine the special regulations which must be adapted to the special social conditions [of each country]. The resolutions proposed at the Bergen Conference were agreed to with practical unanimity, only two dissentients voting against them. During the Conference we arranged a meeting of the British and Colonial delegates, and on the day following the last sitting of the official Conference, a further meeting of these delegates was held, at which the following statement and recommendations were prepared and unanimously approved. This British statement is appended as in our judgment embodying—when read in conjunction with the official resolu- tions of the Bergen Conference—the line of administrative policy which it is desirable to adopt for the prevention of leprosy throughout the British Empire, so far as local circumstances permit. Arthur Newsholme. Malcolm Morris. The Right Hon. Viscount Wolverhampton, G.C.S.I., Lord President of the Council. Copy of Statement prepared at a Meeting of British and Colonial Delegates, Bergen, August 1909. We, the undersigned delegates from the British and certain Colonial Governments, unanimously approve the resolutions adopted by the Second International Scientific Conference on Leprosy, held at Bergen, August 16th to 19th, 1909. At a special meeting held by us on the 20tli August we agreed to the following additional resolutions :— 1. Leprosy is spread by direct and indirect contagion from persons suffering from the disease. The possibility that indirect contagion may be effected by fleas, bugs, lice, the itch parasite, &e., has to be borne in mind. Leprosy is mosl prevalent under conditions of personal and domestic unclean- liness and overcrowding, especially where there is close and protracted association between the leprous and non-lepTous. 2. Leprosy is not due to the eating of any particular food, such as fish. 3. There is no evidence that leprosy is hereditary; the occurrence of several cases in a single family is due to contagion. O 2749.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22425792_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
