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Leprosaria in Brazil, 1936

 

'Organizações Anti-Leprosas, Brasil 1936'
Araujo, HCS. 'A lepra e as organizações anti-leprosas do Brasil em 1936', Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1937:32

Click on a state below to access a list of leprosaria in that area of Brazil in 1936. Select a leprosarium from the list to see the respective entry in the database. Use the scroll bars to journey across the map.

 

 
Map of Brazil from 1936, showing location of leprosaria
   

Please note: spelling of place names and institutions is not consistent across sources. In the list below, the spelling in Souza Araujo's 1937 publication is used.

Acre
Lazareto Souza-Araujo

 

Amazonas
Leprosario Belisario Penna, Paricatuba

 

Bahia
Leprosario D. Rodrigo José de Menezes
Leprosario-Colonia Aguas Claras

 

Ceará
Leprosario Antonio Diogo, Canafistula

 

Districto Federal
Hospital dos Lazaros, S. Christovam
Hospital-Colonia de Curupaity, Jacarépaguá

 

Espirito Santo
Asylo de leprosos da Ilha da Cal
Leprosario-Colonia Itanhenga

 

Goyaz
Asylo de Annapolis
Asylo de Bananal
Asylo de Catalão

 

Maranhão
Hospital do Gavião
Colonia do Bomfim
Leprosario S. Luiz

 

Matto Grosso
Hospital S. João dos Lazaros, Cuyabá

 

Minas Geraes
Hospital dos Lazaros de Sabará
Colonia Santa Izabel
Padre Damião
São Francisco de Assis, Bambuhy
S. Tarcisio (preventório)

 

Pará
Hospicio dos Lazaros, Tocunduba
Lazaropolis do Prata, João Pessoa

 

Parahyba
Leprosario no Rio do Meio (Getulio Vargas)

 

Paraná
Leprosario São Roque, Deodoro

 

Pernambuco
Hospital dos Lazaros, Recife
Leprosario de Mirueira

 

Piauhy
Hospital São Lazaro, Parnahyba

 

Rio de Janeiro
Asylo de Leprosos, Itaborahy (provisional)
Leprosario de Iguá, Itaborahy

 

Rio Grande do Norte
Leprosario S. Francisco de Assis

 

Rio Grande do Sul
Leprosario de Emergencia
Leprosario Itapuan

 

Santa Catharina
Colonia de Leprosos Santa Thereza, São José

 

São Paulo
Asylo-Colonia Santo Angelo
Preventorio Asylo Santa Therezinha, Carapicuhyba
Sanatorio Padre Bento
Asylo-Colonia Pirapitinguy
Asylo-Colonia Cocaes
Asylo-Colonia Aymorés

 

 


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