The most important things in lepra control is to detect the leper and to give the appropriate therapy as early as possible, but in this country, there are too many difficulties to employ this authorized simple method, so that the leprosy prevailed throughout the country.
The carelessness and discretion of the patients and the lack of expert doctors for leper are the main difficulties.
In this paper, the actual conditions which are found in. the early stage of onset are observed in detail and the auther believes that these data may contribute to the problem for detection and prevention of the leper. in its early stage.
One hundred and twenty ´one leper children under fifteen years of age, one hundred suspicious children and one hundred and fifty three non-infected healthy children were observed.
65 are neural and 56 are nodular, all of themi are mild cases.
Average age of leprosy onset who have leper parents is 7.769±2.605. I presume this is almost exact latent period of leprosy because of they have been closely contacted with leper parent from their new-born till then.
Their initial symptoms and signs are found mainly, hypoithesia or anaesthesia, vesicle formation, deformity of fingers, macula on eruption.
Their initial area of affected are such as finger, elbow, knee, skin and fore-arm etc. 108 out of 121 child leper are found a certain. blood relations have concerned. 62 of
fathers, 59 of mothers, 25 of brothers and sisters are leper.
I found the most unfortunate family, grandmother, father, mother, uncle, elder brother
and he himself, that all of six numbers of family were affected.
Their present symptoms and signs are mainly, anaesthesia, nerve thickening, fall of
eye-lashes, deformity of fingers etc.
The average age of suspicions 9.2±3.14 is longer than the average age of child lepers. onset, needed. future careful. precaution contineously, must. consider with their present signs such as nerve-thickening, hyposthesia, poor sweting, nose obstruction etc.
The average age of non-infected children is approximately the same with the average age of child lepers ´onset.
They have to be isolated immediately from their leper parents and affected friends.
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