Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the etiologic agent of leprosy. His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909. Wikipedia
~ (British) Government of India’s Leper Act of 1898: forced into asylums Links: Repealed in 1983? Or 2002? (conflicting sources)
~ Wellesley Bailey. The Mission to Lepers (renamed in 1965 as The Leprosy Mission). Stationed in Purulia, West Bengal
~ Dr. Robert G. Cochrane, medical missionary in India. Superintendent of a leprosy sanatorium in Chingulpet (Chengalpattu), Tamil Nadu
long history of working with leprosy. Associated with The Mission to Lepers (later The Leprosy Mission, TLM)
From 1935 to 1944, Cochrane was chief medical officer at the Lady Willingdon Leprosarium in Chingleput, Madras. He became adviser in leprosy to the State of Madras, and later worked in the General Hospital, Madras, as well as Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital, where he was instrumental in obtaining support to upgrade the institution. In 1945, Cochrane began studies with sulfone derivatives, and was the first to use dapsone in the treatment of leprosy, laying the groundwork for treatments still used today. (https://leprosyhistory.org/database/person4)
~ Dr. Cochrane, now Principal at the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, begins further research and trials into DDS (Dapsone) as an effective cure for leprosy
Acquisition of land at Karigiri. ~ (part of the land gifted by the government; part of it bought at a nominal rate by The Mission to Lepers)
1955
W.M. Jay Schieffelin dies. Research sanatorium erected in memory of Shieffelin Links American Leprosy Mission Plaque at sanatorium entrance
Clinic is opened – First patient treated: (name) Links: Portrait/photo of first patient Patient record
Mat weaving unit started for rehabilitation of treated leprosy patients with Social Welfare Board assistance
• Research in animal house started (Radda Barnen laboratory)
Scheifelin Leprosy Research and Training Centre (SLRTC) gets autonomous status
• Lazarus ward opened for private patients
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• Eye OPD Opened (gift of CBM)
• Inauguration of Paul Brand Integrated Health Centre, Katpadi • Scheiffelin Leprosy Research and Training Centre becomes Scheifflin Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Centre
• Recognised as sentinel surveillance centre for Drug Resistance in Leprosy by WHO
• MoU signed by Tiruvalluvar University
• Entry level NABL Accreditation for lab