Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. 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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    is deserving of very special attention, not only for the study of the disease, but also for the purpose of devising some means whereby the troubles of the unfortunate sufferers may be mitigated. We have therefore carefully examined the returns witli the object of being able to bring into prominent notice all the larger districts in the three Presidencies which are burdened with such a high proportion of lepers as 2 per 1,000 implies, and have arranged the data thus collected into the subjoined Tabular Statement: TABLE 3.—Districts of 100,000 Inliahitants and upwards which con- tain a Leprous Population equivalent [or nearly so) to 20 per lO^OOO. Presidency. Bengal Ditto .. Ditto .. Ditto.. Ditto Ditto .. Bombay Ditto .. Ditto .. Madras Division or Col- lectorate. Burdwan. ... Ditto Ditto Kumaun ... Allahabad... Meerut Sbolapore ... Khandesh. ... Eatnagiri District, &c. Beerbboom Bancoorab Burdwan ... Kumaun & Garbwal Banda* (Tebseel)... Debra Doon Barsi Sowda ... Bajapore Total Population of Dis- trict, &c. 695,921 526,772 2,034,745 743,602 108,771 115,771 130,853 124,519 168,498 Total Lepers in District, &c. Lepers per 10,000 of Population of District, &c. Tbe biffbest district is tbat of Madras itself, 10-5 per 10,000. O 4,649,452 2,872 1,578 4,604 1,571 214 220 335 312 395 12,101 41-2 30-0 22- 6 2M 19-6 190 25-6 25-0 23- 4 26-0 * Girwain (population 78,848), in Bnnda District, contains 40 lepers per 10,000. The foregoing numerical data regarding the distribution of leprosy in British India can. The relative value of the numeri- as already stated, bc acceptcd as cai and geographical data. ^^^^ approximately correct so far as the actual enumeration of the lepers is concerned, but what is probably of considerably more importance m con- nection with the study of its etiology is, that they convey fairly accurate information regarding the particular parts of the country where the disease is most prevalent, iius