Annals of medical history . Sir)J. B. Harrison, director of the department ofscience, etc.; Acting Surgeon-GeneralOzzard; Capt. Harold Frere, superintendentof H. M. S. Penal Settlement; Mr. JusticeDalton, U. S. Consul; C. W. Davis andMr. L. D. Clear, Jr., of the department ofscience and agriculture. The proposal to bring Dr. Beauperthuyto the Colony came officially before theBritish Guiana authorities at a meetingof the Court of Policy (upper branch of thelegislature) early in 1870. According tothe Colonist of August 25, 1870, the Gover-nor informed the Court that negotiationshad so far progre
Annals of medical history . Sir)J. B. Harrison, director of the department ofscience, etc.; Acting Surgeon-GeneralOzzard; Capt. Harold Frere, superintendentof H. M. S. Penal Settlement; Mr. JusticeDalton, U. S. Consul; C. W. Davis andMr. L. D. Clear, Jr., of the department ofscience and agriculture. The proposal to bring Dr. Beauperthuyto the Colony came officially before theBritish Guiana authorities at a meetingof the Court of Policy (upper branch of thelegislature) early in 1870. According tothe Colonist of August 25, 1870, the Gover-nor informed the Court that negotiationshad so far progressed that a bill on the subject of a special leper hospital on KaowIsland was in course of preparation; alsothat Dr. Beauperthuy had just arrived inthe Colony and was about to visit theproposed site of the hospital in companywith the Surgeon-General, Dr. Beauperthuy would not remain longin the Colony, but he desired to stay duringthe trial of his remedies and to bring withhim certain (private) patients then under. A Recent (1921) View of Kaow Island, Mazaruni River,British Guiana, Showing Traces of the 50-cottaceHospital Erected by the Colonial Government forthe Treatment of Leprosy by the Beauperthuy Method his care that he might superintend theirtreatment and complete their cure. Heshowed photographs of his patients beforeand after treating them. He did not professto cure nor did he wish to treat cases ofadvanced leprosy—only those in their incip-iency. The patients Dr. Beauperthuy wasto bring with him would not be a charge onthe Colony; they were sons of well-to-dopeople (who had unfortunately acquiredthe disease) and who would pay their ownway. At a meeting of the Court on September27, 1870, the Governor further reported thatthrough the Surgeon-General he had madearrangements for the treatment of aboutfifty lepers, selected cases from the asylumat Mahaica, which Dr. Beauperthuy liadvisited and carefully examined. He found 172 Annals oj Medical History the asylu
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