D SOCIAL SCIENTIST milder form of segregation for leprosy patients in England, removing them to a separate hospital, was advocated in 1866 (some 20 cases had been detected in previous years); see Erasmus Wilson, 'On a probable necessity for the revival of the leper hospitals of Great Britain', British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, (1866) p. 456. The example of Norway was most relevant; here a law was enacted at the instance of A. Hansen in 1885 for the forcible confinement of leprosy patients who did not adhere to a strict regimen of isolation in their homes. This in spite of the fact that leprosy was well into decline in Norway at the time, and Hansen himself admitted to being uncertain about the nature of transmission and contagion; he wrote, "I don't know the way in which leprosy is communicated or transferred from a leper to a sound person, but I am most inclined to believe that it is done by a sort of inoculation... this is only hypothesis". Quoted in Phineas S. Abraham (ed), Journal of the Leprosy Investigation Committee, No. 2, (Feb. 1891), p. 63. For the impact of Hansen's ideas outside Norway see Robson Roose, Leprosy and its Prevention as illustrated by Norwegian Experience, (London: Lewis, 1890). 22. Radhika Ramasubban, fh. 9 above. 23. Bombay Govt. Resolution, 1882, Bombay Gazette 1882, p. 1009, IOR, V/1/2232. 24. The Report of the Leprosy Commission in India 1890-91, frt 21 above, argued in fact that "the figures available...point strongly to a decrease among these unfortunate people", p. 150. 25. "Legislation for the compulsory detention of lepers will . . . only be justifiable when it has been established beyond reasonable doubt that the disease is contagious." Lansdowne to Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India, 24 Dec. 1890, Papers, fn 21 above, p. 299. 26. Ibid., p. 364. 27. This was done under section 12 of Bombay Act VI of 1867. Ibid, p. 309. 28. The responses of this wide cross section are scattered throughout Papers, fn 21 above. 29. For references to caste in asylums, see Ibid, p. 23, 26,52. 30. See Ibid., p. 4. 31. Home (Med-A), August 1890, no. 82 and 83, NAI. 32. Quoted in Home (Med-A), July 1889, No. 26-30, NAI. 33. V/4740, IOR. 34. Leprosy in India: Summary of Reports furnished by the Government of British India to His Hawaiian Majesty's Government, (Honolulu: H.I.,1886), p. 46. 35. G.H.Watson. Supt. Subathu Leper Asylum. July 25,1927 Subathu 113/7. TLM 36. Described in Report of the Leprosy Commission for India, in. 21 above, p. 359-415. 37. For a contrary view.that of Mr.Sakharam Arjen in charge of the wards for incurables at the Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy Hospital, see Ibid., p. 367-68. 38. C.E. Peters. 'Leprosy, report on cases in Belgaum, 1876-8MOR.V/27/854/8. See also Report on treatment of Leprosy with Gurjan oil and other remedies in Hospitals of the Madras Presidency, (Madras: Govt. Press, 1876). 39. N.H. Choksy, Report on Leprosy and the Homeless Leper Asylum.Matunga. Bombay 1890-1897. (Bombay: British-India Printing, 1901), p. 72. 40. A Home Department Resolution of 26 Sept.1888 directed that government grants would be conditional upon this. Home (Med-A) July 1889, No. 26-30, NAI. 41. See Papers, in 21 above, p. 5-9. 42. Letter of E. Canon. Supt. Purulia Leper Asylum,April 13,1918,111/7, TLM. 43. Letter of Sharpe,Apra 13,1918,111/7, TLM. 44. Letter of Sam Higgenbotfbm. Supt. Naini Leper Asylum, 7 May 1917113/3, TLM. 45. Experiments with injections of chaulmo'ogra oil were conducted in several countries, including the USA and Philippines: see Home (Med-A), Feb. 1916, No. 45-46, NAI. 46. For details see Major General Sir Leonard Rogers, Happy Toil: Fifty-five years of Tropical Medicine, (London:Fredrick Muller, 1950, pp. 190-94. See also Helen Power, Sir Leonard Rogers FRS (1868-1962): Tropical Medicine in the Indian