01497nas a2200289   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001500055653001000070653001000080653002100090653001100111653001100122653001400133653001200147653000900159653001600168653001500184100001300199245006000212856005900272300001100331490000700342050003200349520081200381022001401193       1991                            d  c1991 Dec10aAdolescent10aAdult10aChild10aChild, Preschool10aFemale10aHumans10aIncidence10aleprosy10aMale10aMiddle Aged10aQueensland1 aRée G H00aPattern of leprosy in Queensland, Australia, 1855-1990.  uhttp://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1991/v62n4/pdf/v62n4a09.pdf  a420-300 v62  aInfolep Library - available3 a<p>Leprosy was first diagnosed in Queensland in 1855. From then until 1990, 929 patients with the disease were notified. The pattern of notification has varied with the passage of time, and with the changing pattern of migration into Queensland. In the early days, Chinese, Melanesians and Caucasians featured prominently. The first Aboriginal notification was in 1892. In the latter part of this century, significant numbers of Torres Strait Islanders and migrants from South East Asia have been recorded. Among Caucasians, the incidence peaked in the decade 1931-1940, although the prevalence rate in this population remains much higher than in Caucasians. The control of leprosy is at a high level in Queensland today, but there is a continuing low level of new case reporting, many of them imported.</p>  a0305-7518