Long-untreated leprosy damages the nerves in the hands and feet, causing a loss of sensation and muscle paralysis. As a result, a lot of patients want total anonymity even if it impacts their treatment. But the shoes, and what they signify, can also get them thrown off a bus or train, make them lose their jobs, or get legally divorced. The only way to make a dent on leprosy, according to the researchers, is to improve the rate and speed of detection. However, in a report in the British Medical Journal last March, Lockwood pointed out that any fall in prevalence was likely to have come from cutting short the duration of treatment and removing cured patients from the rolls, rather than a reduction in the transmission of the infection.
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Pandit N Bashya Charya. The founder of the Mission to Lepers was an Irishman, Wellesley Bailey , who had gone to New Zealand and New Caledonia unsuccessfully looking for gold and then went on to India in the hope of taking a police commission.
Instead he began teaching in a mission school with the American Presbyterian Mission in Ambala where he was introduced to a small leprosy settlement close by. Gussow, In his own words,. The asylum consisted of three rows of huts under some trees. In front of one row the inmates had assembled for worship. They were in all stages of the malady, very terrible to look upon, with a sad, woebegone expression on their faces — a look of utter helplessness.
I almost shuddered, yet I was at the time fascinated, and I felt, if ever there was a Christ-like work in this world it was to go among these poor sufferers and bring to them the consolation of the Gospel.
Miller They produced a sixteen page pamphlet to spread their appeal. By there had raised over one million pounds sterling and were working in cooperation with nineteen British, sixteen American, and three European Protestant societies. Gussow In , the Mission to Lepers held a large conference in Calcutta where superintendents of the various asylums gathered to discuss their work.
Report By then, there were more than 8 people in leprosy asylums. At the conference, Reverend Frank Oldrieve told those gathered that their appeal had received Rs 1, , from India, about 70 per cent of which had been given by Indians. The mission now had a medical subcommittee that espoused chaulmoogra oil-based injections, developed by Sir Leonard Rogers.
Curzon, as well as prominent members of the medical fraternity. The executive committee decided to erect a memorial to Damien at Molokai , site of the leprosy colony in Hawaii ; to establish a fund for people with leprosy in the United Kingdom; to endow two studentships for doctors to study the disease; and to appoint an Indian Leprosy Commission to investigate leprosy in India. Various maps of leprosy in India produced by the Leprosy Commission.
After extensive surveys and investigations, the commissioners concluded that leprosy was a disease sui generis , originating de novo from a sequence or concurrence of causes and conditions that were related to each other in as yet unknown ways. Leprosy in India For India is a moderate estimate.
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