Volume 2

[Report]. / Leprosy Commission.

  • Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Leprosy Commission.
Date:
1894-1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report]. / Leprosy Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    1.3. L)(i you Cdusider thai Lepmsy has any rehition with—{ii) T)iet: HA i'iiViealthy sniTOnndiugs— it' specify: [rj Nei'Mnw or mental conditions : {d) Racial peculiarities; (r) Soil; (/) Un- ci eanliness; {(/) Poverty; (h/Any other con- ditions? Please mention these conditions. 39. Unhealthy surroiiudings, imcleaulines? and poverty, yes; syphilis seems to favour development. Poor diet; decayed and salted Heh ; dirt and unliealthy surroundings. 48. No, but poverty would have bad effect on patient. Ha\X' you any evidence show in^ that leprosy is peenliarlj' liable to make itself apparent in certam localities or dvrellings!' If so, kindly describe siioh areas. 39. No. 47. Most of the eases were found in and near fishing hamlets of Hermanus2)ieterfonteiu and Hemel en Aarde, about 12 miles distant. 48. No. 49. No. 50. Uncleanlinees and poverty. 51. Heard of in wet climates, but very seldom in dry Karroo. The Eobben Island people had better be removed to Victoria West, and we shall take good care of them, and let them at large when they have been healed by our bracing air.
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