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.
Number
of histories received.
Division.
District.
Number of histories received.

Garhwal
30
ALLAHABAD. 
Cawnpore
30
KUMAUN.
Kumaun
30

Hamirpur
10

Tarai
20

Banda
30

Bijnor
30

Fatehpur
30

Moradabad
30

Allahabad
15
ROHILKHAND.
Bareilly 
30 
BENARES.
Jaunpur 
30

Budaun
30

Gorakhpur
30

Shahjahanpur
30

Basti
60

Dehra Dun
30

Azamgarh
30

Saharanpur
60

Ghazipur
30
MEERUT.
Muzaffarnagar
19
JHANSI.
Benares
60

Meerut
33

Mirzapur
26

Bulandshahr
42

Jalaun
30

Aligarh
17

Jhansi
30

Etah
30

Lalitpur
15

Muttra
30



AGRA.
Farukhabad
52




Agra
30




Etawah
30




Mainpuri
472

Total
1,531