A handbook on leprosy.

  • Impey, S. P. (Samuel Patton)
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A handbook on leprosy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    District. Paail—B. . Peddie—C Phillipstown Piquetl)erg—B Port Elizabeth Pi-ieska . . Prince Albert Queenstown—C Richmond Riversdale Robertson Somerset East SteUenbosch—B Steynsberg Stockenstroom—A St utter heim—0 Sutherland Swellendam Tarka Tulbagh—B Uitenhage—C XJniondale Victoria East—C Victoria West Willowmore Wodehouse—C Worcester—B DISTIUIUJTIOX. h Area. Population. Per sq. mile. Lepers 610 21,403 35 28 657 16,525 25-1 2 2,695 6,846 2-5 2 1,733 11,587 6-6 14 176 25,408 144 10 5,284 4,302 •8 1 4,293 7,046 1-6 — 2,194 42,895 20 17 4,430 7,246 1-6 5 1,712 11,366 6-6 9 1,526 11,348 7-4 5 3,052 19,007 6-2 12 318 12,780 40 43 1,113 7,052 6-3 — ■ 314 7,776 24-7 12 670 8,651 12-9 7 4,808 4,012 •8 — 2,362 11,256 4-7 3 1,427 • 7,743 5-4 — 373 5,654 15-1 — 2,973 20,947 7 7 1,680 8,415 5 — 330 8,875 26-8 1 4,873 7,220 1-4 1 3,498 9,036 2-5 — 3,664 37,149 10-1 4 2,623 12,616 4-8 6 The districts marked A are occupied by a large number of half-castes of the Hottentot tribe; those districts marked B are largely populated by coloured Cape people of mixed extraction; the districts marked C are occupied by pure bred natives. Kimberley has in its native miners a large coloured population from all parts of South Africa. Caledon is the district in which the old Leper Asylum was situated, and at Graaff Eeinet