No. 714 A, dated Allahabad, the 21st November 1876.
From—B. W. COLVIN, Esq., Offg. Secretary to the Government of the
North-Western Provinces.
To—The Offg. Secretary to the Government of India, Home Dept.
IN continuation of my letter No. 612 A, dated 26th September
last, I am directed to forward, for the information of the Honourable
the President in Council, the accompanying report on leprosy in these
Provinces drawn up by the Sanitary Commissioner, North-Western
Provinces, in accordance with paragraph 8 of the Resolution of the
Government of India, Home Department (Medical), No 1—136
dated 5th March 1875.
No. 33 A, dated Naini Tal, the 19th October 1876.
From—C. PLANCK, Esq., Sanitary Commissioner, North-Western Pro-
vinces.
To—The Offg. Secretary to the Govt. of the North-Western Provinces.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith a report on leprosy, as required by the
orders of the Government of India dated 5th March 1876.
Report on leprosy in the North-Western Provinces.
[ Prepared in obedience to the orders of the Government of India, contained in paragraph 8 of Resolution
No. 1—136, dated 5th March 1875, in the Home Department ( Medical).]
1. THE orders of Government above quoted were to the effect that the Sanitary
Commissioners of Local Governments should, with the assistance of the Civil Surgeons,
collect all facts bearing on the distribution and causation of leprosy ; the principal
facts to be noticed and recorded being—1st, the extent to which leprosy exists in
each district ; 2nd, if localized, the locality in which it is chiefly found ; 3rd, the
peculiarities of this locality, if any, and the conditions in other respects under which
the people therein live ; 4th, the circumstances under which individual cases seem to
have arisen, whether by contagion or hereditary taint, or from any other cause.
2. As a reliable foundation for this investigation, I have, during the past year,
been engaged, in regard to this subject, in collecting, with the assistance of the Civil
Surgeons, histories of leprosy cases from every district of the Province. The history
in every case being a record of facts in the following form :
Present history.—Name, age, sex, caste, present place of abode, form of leprosy
suffered, present means of livelihood.
Previous history.—Place of abode when first attacked with leprosy, age when
first attacked, employment or means of livelihood when first attacked.
Family history.—State of health during life of grandfathers and grandmothers,
father and mother, uncles or aunts, brothers and sisters, as regards leprosy. If
married, state of health of husband and wife as regards leprosy. Period of cohabi-
tation since one was attacked. Number of children born of the marriage, number now
living, number attacked with leprosy,
3. I am now in possession of the complete histories, as above, of 1,531 cases of
leprosy, gathered from all parts of the Province, as shown in the following statement :
Division
District.
Garhwal
Kumaun
Tarai
Bijnor
Moradabad
Bareilly
Budauu
Shahjahanpur
Dehra Dun
Saharanpur
Muzaffarnagar
Meerut
Bulandshahr
Aligarh
Etah
Muttra
Farukhabad
Agra
Etawah
Mainpuri
Number
of
histories
received.
30
30
20
30
30
30
30
30
30
60
19
33
42
17
30
30
52
30
30
472
Division.
District.
Cawnpore
Hamirpur
Banda
Fatehpur
Allahabad
Jaunpur
Gorakhpur
Basti
Azamgarh
Ghazipur
Benares
Mirzapur
Jalaun
J h ansi
Lalitpur
Total
Number
of
histories
received.
30
10
30
30
15
30
30
60
30
30
60
26
30
30
15
.
1,531