Kuryu Rakusen-en Sanatorium

Kuryū Rakusen-en Sanatorium, or National Sanatorium Kuryū Rakusen-en is a sanatorium for leprosy or ex-leprosy patients situated at Kusatsu-machi, Azuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture, Japan which started in 1932.

National Sanatorium Kuryū Rakusen-en
Geography
Location 647, Kusatsu Otsu Kusatsu, Gunma, Japan
Organisation
Care system HealthCare of those who had leprosy
Hospital type National hospital run by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan)
Services
History
Founded 1932
Links
Website http://www.hosp.go.jp/~kuryu/index.html
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History

Pre-Rakusen-en days

Mary Cornwall-Legh

Kusatsu Rakusen-en Sanatorium

Number of In-patients

The number of in-patients is the sum of patients which changed not only by the newly diagnosed hospitalized and those who died among in-patients, by other factors such as the number of patients who escaped or were discharged, depending on the condition of the times. Recently they were encouraged to be discharged, but the long period of the segregation policy causing leprosy stigma might influence the number of those who went into the society.

Year Number of in-patients
1945 1314
1950 1040
1955 1064
1960 994
1965 911
1970 811
1975 777
1980 689
1985 580
1990 477
1995 401
1999 309

[1]

Year Number of in-patients
2003 251
2004 236
2005 223
2006 200
2007 186
2008 169

[2]

References

Notes

  1. Fukken Eno Jitsugetsu (2001), Koyo Shuppansha, Tokyo, p375
  2. http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~libell/main.html 2009.12.24

See also

Coordinates: 36°37′05″N 138°37′35″E / 36.61806°N 138.62639°E