In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers / by John Jackson.

  • Jackson, John, 1853-1917.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers / by John Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This is a mile or so from the town, and is in a very suitable situation. It was formerly the infantry lines, and there is an excellent well on the ground. The ground is ten acres in extent, and has been granted by Government at a merely nominal rent* The collector, Mr. Maconochie, has expressed his intention of having any wandering lepers in the district sent to the Asylum. I found the foundations laid for two blocks of eight and nine rooms for women and men respectively, and Mr. Gates hoped the buildings would be up and the lepers transferred by midsummer. After this it is probable that the numbers will increase, indeed, letters received since my visit speak of many more inmates. In Sholapur I saw much that was of great interest in the general work of the station, which is one of the most successful of the American Marathi Mission in Western India. There are sixty-four workers in the city and its fifteen out-stations, with 1,151 scholars in the Sunday Schools. Eighty-nine additions to the Church in Sholapur in 1900 indicate a healthy spiritual growth. It was a real pleasure to see the pupils in the two schools presided over by Miss Harding and Miss Fowler go through their kinder¬ garten exercises. With circles and lines marked on the floor to guide them, these little people performed the most complicated evolutions with ease and enjoy¬ ment. They sang a “ washing song,” with appro¬ priate action, and with the most roguish expression on many of the little faces, whose white teeth and black eyes shone out so merrily. They ranged in