Papers relating to leprosy in certain British colonies.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Papers relating to leprosy in certain British colonies. 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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    Colony or Protectorate. Year. No. of New Cases of Leprosy recognised during the year. Total No. of Cases known to be present during the year. No. of Deaths from Leprosy during the year. Estimated Population. East Africa Protectorate A number of cases are known. Nyasaland 1908 15 769 26 997,218 Southern Rhodesia :— Mashonaland 1908 — 364 Matabeleland 1908 — 137 Swaziland 1907 1 85,491 1908 1 8 1 (in 1904) Uganda ... ... See page 19. Estimated at 4,500,000. Bahamas :— New Providence ... 1905 7 — 1 14,000 1906 g — 1 1907 4 — 1 1908 6 — 0 Inagua* 1907 5 5 0 1,300 1908 0 5 1 1,100 Barbados ... 1897 22 113 16 198,238 (The numbers refer to the 1898 23 118 18 Lazaretto only). 1899 17 112 22 1900 13 112 13 1901 17 113 16 1902 24 119 18 1903 11 116 14 1904 19 124 11 1905 23 131 15 1906 13 126 18 1907 14 119 20 1908 12 121 7 194,518 Bermuda ... 1897 r 1 19,000 1898 4 1899 8 to 10 cases reported j 1 1900 ' or known. ] 0 1901 1 0 1902 L 0 1903 — — 2 1904 — — 1 1905 — — 0 1906 — — 0 1907 — — 1 1908 — 4 — (possibly 5). British Guiana. (The total num- 1897 84 363 44 286,484 ber of cases refers only to 1898 119 374 41 286,222 asylum inmates). 1899 99 390 48 287,288 1900 80 400 48 294,943 1901 67 398 46 300,748 1902 84 408 63 302,172 1903 85 434 52 302,628 1904 84 414 76 301,923 1905 63 414 48 303,390 1906 85 420 71 306,959 1907 100 377 84 304,549 1908 103 403 88 304,089 British Honduras 1897 1 34,277 1898 1 2 1 34,747 1899 — 1 — 35,226 1900 — 1 — 36,999 1901 — 1 — 37,479 1902 — 1 — 38,315 1903 1 2 — 38,981 1904 — 2 — 39,668 1905 — 2 — 40,372 1906 — 1 — 41,007 1907 1 1 42.406 1908 — Nil — 43,270 Note.—The Inagua Hospital was opened in 1907.
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