No. 100, dated Hyderabad, the 15th December 1875.
From—Major W. TWEEDIE, First Assistant Resident at Hyderabad.
To—The Offg. Secretary to the Government of India.
WITH reference to the Extract of Proceedings of the Government
of India in the Home Department, No. 1—136 of the 5th March
last, received with endorsement No. 147 of the same date, relative to
leprosy in India, the Officiating Resident has the honour to transmit
the accompanying copy of a letter submitted on the subject by the
Commissioner, Hyderabad Assigned Districts, No. 3853 of the 6th
instant, and of its accompaniments, from which the action taken to
collect particulars will be apparent.
No. 394—3218, dated Akola, the 26th November 1875.
From—The Sanitary Commissioner, Hyderabad Assigned Districts.
To—The Commissioner of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts.
ADVERTING to the papers forwarded under cover of your endorsement No. 972
of this year (now sent back for easy reference and return), I have the honour to
state that, agreeably to the instructions contained in paragraph 8 of Government
Resolution No. 1—136 of the 5th March last, I on the 21st April 1875 forwarded
the whole of the correspondence to Civil Surgeons, and with reference to the above-
quoted paragraph asked their co-operation in the enquiry, and hoped that their
reports would reach me by the 1st of September last.
2. I beg now to forward the reports received to this reference for perusal.
If you look back to paragraph 8 of the Resolution you will find that these
reports were to embrace the following points :
(1) the extent to which leprosy existed ;
(2) whether it was localized or not ;
(3) if localized, the peculiarities of the localities it occurred in, if any ;
(4) the conditions under which they lived (lepers) if in any way peculiar,
and
(5) information regarding individual cases—
(a) had they arisen from contagion,
(b) were they hereditary.
While, if you refer to the reports themselves, you will find that the one from
Akola refers to the treatment of two cases, noting in one case that the man's
parents had not the disease. The information from Bassim is to the same effect
in regard to one case only. From Amraoti and Buldana the information is of the
same kind, From Ellichpur it is to the effect that no cases came under treatment.
The Civil Surgeon, Wun, writes more to the point, but not enough, so that
with the information before me I could not well write the report called for.
3. Seeing this to be the case I again addressed Civil Surgeons on the 9th
September asking information as to—
(1) the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in the district -,
(2) if localized, the locality in which it was chiefly found ;
(3) the special peculiarities of this locality if there are any ; and
(4) the special conditions in other respects under which the people in this
locality live.
4. The replies to these questions I also forward, and, as in the previous case,
to save yon trouble, give a summary of them.
The Civil Surgeon, Amraoti, regrets he cannot give the information. He
cannot get about. He has asked Deputy Commissioner for the information.
The Civil Surgeon, Bassim, has met with only one case in his district.
The Civil Surgeon, Buldana, forwards reports from dispensary Hospital Assist-
ants who refer in these to treatment only.
The Medical Officer, Ellichpur, from enquiry, &c., has been unable to discover
if leprosy exist or did exist in his district.