Assertion: leprosy | /r/AtLocation | the decline
Facets:
value: by the 1860s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Though leprosy in Europe was again on the decline by the 1860s, Western countries embraced isolation treatment out of fear of the spread of disease from developing countries, minimal understanding of bacteriology, lack of diagnostic ability or knowledge of how contagious the disease was, and missionary activity.