Leprosy Mission in India, Japan & China

This is John Jackson’s record of his 7,000 mile tour (in about 1900) through India, China and Japan on behalf of the Mission to Lepers, now The Leprosy Mission.

My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain book for digitisation.

John Jackson [1853-1917], In Leper-Land. A Record of 7,000 Miles among Indian Lepers, with a Glimpse of Hawaii, Japan, and China. London: The Mission to Lepers, [1914]. Hbk. pp.208. [Click here to visit The Leprosy Mission page for the download link for this book and related titles]

Contents

1. Bombay
2. Pui and Poladur
3. Nasik
4. Wardha and Raipur
5. Chandkuri
6. Mungeli
7. Purulia
8. Purulia (continued)
9. Asansol
10. Raniganj and Bhangalpur
11. Calcutta
12. The Cry of the Children
13. An Indian Snowstorm
14. Almora
15. Almora to Chandag
16. Chandag Heights—The Place
17. Chandag Heights—The Worker
18. Chandag Heights—The Work
19. Moradabad, Rurki, and Dehra Dun
20. Saharanpur, Ludhiana, ad Ambala
21. Tarn Taran
22. Ramachandrapuram
23. Sholapur, Poona, and Miraj
24. A World Tour

Chapter 1

This volume is the record of a Tour extending to 7,000 miles of Indian travel and occupying a period of twenty weeks, exclusive of the voyages out and home. My primary purpose was to ascertain by personal observation the real condition of the lepers of India, and to obtain a direct insight into the work of ministering to their physical and spiritual needs. It was fitting, therefore, that my first visit to any place of public interest should be to the ” Homeless Leper Asylum,” as it is officially termed, at Matunga, Bombay. The drive of five miles through the city presented to my unfamiliar gaze more features of interest than one pair of eyes could apprehend. While trying to seize the points of a group full of life and colour on the right, figures and scenes of beauty or squalor, but picturesque in either case, were escaping me on the left….

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