pp 917-18. Chief Commissioner of Coorg forwards comments regarding the ethics of enforced segregation, and the need to take public opinion into account.
Arrival of the Leprosy Commissioners in India and the arrangements made by the Government of India for assisting them in their enquiries
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pp 1167-75. Consists of copy memorandum from the National Leprosy Fund, plus resolution of the Government of India requesting help at a local government level.
Distribution of the sets of questions devised by the Leprosy Commission in connection with their investigation relating to leprosy in India
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pp 1205-21. Communication from the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, enclosing questionnaires to be distributed to Civil Medical Officers throughout India when investigating leprosy; including H Vandyke Carter's Leper Inheritance Table.
pp 349-816. Correspondence regarding the draft bill "to make provision for the isolation of lepers and the amelioration of their condition". Consists of detailed legal and medical opinion on the legislation and leprosy, its nature and methods of treatment; and on the ethics and utility of enfor...
Names of the gentlemen in the several Provinces of India who are likely to be able to furnish Dr Phineas Abraham, Technical Secretary to the National Leprosy Fund, with useful information relating to the causes and cure of leprosy
pp 1011-17. Communication from the Government of Bengal, forwarding a letter from the Public Health Society of Calcutta, calling for leprosy asylums to be licensed by Government.
Question of the isolation of lepers, their detention in asylums, and the amelioration of their condition
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pp 1031-34. Correspondence between the City of Bombay, the Government of Bombay and the Government of India regarding the overcrowding of leprosy asylums, public begging by those suffering from leprosy, the possibility of constructing an additional asylum at Trombay, and the need for legislation....
Extent to which the Government of India would be disposed to make grants in aid of the foundation of Leper Asylums and of other purposes connected with the relief of the sufferings of lepers in India
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pp 1035-37. Communication forwarded to the Governor General in Council by the Committee of the Mission of Lepers regarding grants to leprosy asylums, providing details of the various societies, institutions and settlements receiving grants from the Mission. Plus reply of the Government of India r...