Local Notes:-Bombay. 15
TRICHINOPOLY.
The Municipal Leper Hospital can accommodate sixteen
patients. Nineteen patients were seen here, and all were in an
advanced stage of the disease. Three of those examined were
not lepers. Less severe cases, estimated at about one hundred
and sixty, are vagrants in the city and immediate neighbour-
hood. Of the cases examined nine were Hindus. Eight
lepers were married, with a total of eight children, or 10 to
each marriage.
Bombay.
BELGAUM.
There are two Asylums in Belgaum: one founded in 1863
for male, the other erected in 1872 for female, lepers. These
are distant about half a mile from each other, not in secluded
parts of the city but surrounded with dwellings. The buildings
each consist of a long hut built of laterite with a verandah;
partitions divide this into about a dozen compartments. Behind
the female asylum is a street, about 12 feet wide, with houses
full of people on the opposite side. The inhabitants do not
seem to fear the disease spreading, for during the past seven
years no case of leprosy has occurred in proximity to the
asylum. Father Gonsalvo, a Portuguese priest, charitably
looks after the lepers. There is no compulsory detention, but
begging is prohibited. The attendant of the female asylum
during the last eleven years has lived next door to the build
ing, and is perfectly healthy.
BOMBAY.
Three colonies of lepers were examined in Bombay and
the immediate neighbourhood, at Trombay, in the Dharmsala,