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During the first part of the nineteenth century, British leprosy treatment in the Madras presidency was guided principally by the inclination and judgement of the medical officers directly involved in the care of leprosy sufferers. There was some monitoring by the medical board and presidency government, but little interference. It was not until the 1860s that the attention of the Home government and Government of India was drawn to leprosy treatment, and the more distant levels of government began to direct British treatment of leprosy at the local level.
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Buckingham, J. (2002). Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context. In: Leprosy in Colonial South India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932730_4
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