Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17

1919 the colonial government of South At
RIGA fearing the spread of leprosy erected d
hospital at Hemel en- Aarde, and four years
later larger hospital was erected. and the
government requested the Moravian Church,
already working among the Hottentots. 10
send missionaries to manage the institution
and look after the spiritual as well as me
material welfare of Its inmates. In 1916 the
establishment was removed to hoooen
Island, and was continued in the care OF
the Moravians TIL 1857. when the EngHsn
government appointed cha plain of the
Church of England and the Moraviais with
drew.
AZ early as 1910 provision for lepers was
ma de at Aimora, India, through the enort3
OF government official, and in 1919 the
work was turned over to the L. NJ g.
In 1856 an asylum for lepers was estaD-
lished at Ambala. Punjab, by missionaries
of the P. N. again aided and largely sup
ported by a government official. But with
the exception of the one asylum In Soutn
Africa and the two institutions In india,
practically nothing was done FOR iepers
during the year previous to 1850.
During the next thirty years Christians
were slowly but surely awakening to
sense of the pressing need of these neglect
ed classes, especially in India, where lep-
rosy is so prevalent. Asylums were estab-
lished at Chamba, Rawal. Pindi, Sabathu
and Tarn Tarran, in Punjab; at Agra, AL
lahabad, Almara. Banda and Chandag. near
Plttharagarh in the northwest (united)
provinces: at Puruiia in Burgal. at Ujjaln,
in Central india and at Alepped Mangular
and Najoor in the south of Hipdustan. The
c. NJ. 8. established leper settlement on
the Zanzibar coast in Africa, and the Nor
wegian Missionary Society began work for
lepers at two stations in Madagascar. In
Jerusalem the Moravians established an
asylum and home for lepers.
While the various existing missionary or
ganizations were directly or indirectly
working for lepers. the expansion of the
work during this period Is largely due to
the formation Of the society called the
Mission to Lepers in India and the East.
by Mr.. WELLESLEY c. Bailey, who, while
missionary of the American Presbyterian
Church in Punjab as early as 1869 became
much impressed with the conditions of the
lepers at the Ambala asylum of that mis-
sion. In 1874 he visited Great Britain and
succeeded In forming society for devel-
oping this special work. While as an or
ganization 1t is independent, 1t co-operates
with the various societies engaged In the
work
Work especially directed to the lepers has
greatly expanded since 1890. At that date
organized efforts for lepers did not exist in
China, Japan. Burma and many other coun-
tries. and there were but twenty institu-
lions for lepers in all the mission fields to-
gether. Since 1880 sixty-two asylums and
homes for these afflicted people have been
established, more than three times as many
as In all previous years. Twenty-Five prom
inent missionary societies receiving aid
In their work from the mission to lepers,
which now has fifty-ive stations In India,
Burma and Ceylon; ten in China, two In
Japan and thirty asylums or hospitals In
these countries owned by the Mission to
Lepers itself, although other societies CO.
operate in the service rendered the inmates.
In addition to these. fourteen institutions
for lepers. owned by various societies, are
partly supported by missions to lepers.
Fourteen homes for the untainted children
of lepers have been established. Missionary
work Is also carried on in the asylums es-
tablished by the British government in sew
eral important cities of india.
The first institution for lepers In Burma
was opened In 1891 at Mandalay. At Sing
apore government leper colony is regu-
larly visited by missionary. At Lakaron,
among the Loos people, the native Chris
hoi. In South Chinat in 1891, the C. NJ y.
founded one of the finest Institutions for
lepers in the foreign field and has since
opened work for them at Hang-chan-fu, Eu
Chan-fu, Kien-ming-fu, Lo-ngwong and
Ku-tien-hsien. In 1895 the first ieper
asylum in central China was established by
the L. M S. The American M. q. mission
has work for lepers at Hsing- hiva-fu and
the Protestant Episcopal Church Of this
country has begun work at Ngan-king on
the Yangtse river. Work for the lepers OF
Japan was begun by the American Presby-
terians in 1894 in a suburb OF Toxic and the
c. M. 8. has a hospital at Kumanoto.
In Africa. besides the colony on Robben
Island, the Moravian missionaries work
among the lepers within the bounds of
their mission north OF Lake Nyasa. In the
Transvaai, the Hermannsburgh mission
has q work at Mosetta.
The government asylum at Emjanjana
In Kanrarfa IL visited by missionary or
the Scottish Episcopal Church. Another
leper colony IL cared for near the town OF
Zanxil,ar Manakavaly, the leper village
near lsoavina, built By the L. ~. s., has
been taken over BY the Paris Evangelical
Missionary Society.
The Norwegian Misaionary Society has .
station for iepers at Antstrabe and another
Lutheran Church 0f Anertd4 also has ~
leper home and asyium ID MndawaeeAr.
Tho French Roman CakhoafcS have tWo 49,