Infections in leprosy institutions

ABSTRACT

1- Leprosy can be acquired by the adult staff in leprosy institutions. 2- A plea is made for elementary hygienic practices by the staff. 3- Infected individuals should not come in contact with children. ADDENDUM We have recently admitted one of our European ex nurses as a patient. She started work here in 1935 when aged 22, and left to get married in 1939. Her health while she worked here was good except for attackis of tonsillitis. She knows of no accident or trauma while at work. In 1955, when aged 42, she developed tuberculoid leprosy, which responded rapidly to DDS and atabrin. She knows of no leprosy in her family, or of any contacts with leprosy since she worked here. This appears to be another instance of an adult acquiring leprosy.