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 | | For this purpose, it was intended (1) to establish a Government Leper Asylum at Chingleput, and (2) to make use of existing private asylums for the compulsory segregation of lepers. |
 | | Plans and estimates amounting to Rs 342,861 for the construction of pukka buildings for an asylum for 300 patients at Chingleput were sanctioned in 1917, but owing to the financial stringency created by the war, it was not possible to proceed with the scheme." |
 | | Her Excellency Lady Willingdon, on visiting the leper hospital at Tondiarpet, was struck by the unsuitable buildings and arrangements generally, and, interesting herself in the matter, consulted the Surgeon-General, who agreed to the proposal to remove the lepers from Madras to a settlement in the Muffassal. |
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