TY - JOUR KW - Adult KW - Child KW - Female KW - Health Surveys KW - Humans KW - India KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Preventive Health Services KW - Random Allocation AU - Ramu G AU - Pandian T D AU - Rajaram N AU - Sithambaram M AU - Bharati R AB -

A sample survey of the Dharmapuri Leprosy Control Project was undertaken in 1983; a population of 60855 was enumerated out of which 51205 was examined. The sampling procedure which was followed consisted of stratifying the sub-centres according to prevalence and classifying the villages by the size of the population. Villages were selected by random allocation. 10 leprosy inspectors participated in the survey examining 626 to 774 persons per day. 859 active cases were detected giving a prevalence of 16.77 per thousand. The child prevalence was 6.19 per thousand. The number of lepromatous and BL cases detected were 70 giving an infectivity rate of 8.15%. The prevalence of leprosy as found in the last survey conducted in the different areas in the project approximate to those of the sample survey. Therefore it could be said that the prevalence has decreased in this project from 19.94 per thousand as observed in the first survey. The child prevalence has likewise decreased from 9.40 to 4.09 in the project.

BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3831095?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1985 Jul-Sep IS - 3 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -

A sample survey of the Dharmapuri Leprosy Control Project was undertaken in 1983; a population of 60855 was enumerated out of which 51205 was examined. The sampling procedure which was followed consisted of stratifying the sub-centres according to prevalence and classifying the villages by the size of the population. Villages were selected by random allocation. 10 leprosy inspectors participated in the survey examining 626 to 774 persons per day. 859 active cases were detected giving a prevalence of 16.77 per thousand. The child prevalence was 6.19 per thousand. The number of lepromatous and BL cases detected were 70 giving an infectivity rate of 8.15%. The prevalence of leprosy as found in the last survey conducted in the different areas in the project approximate to those of the sample survey. Therefore it could be said that the prevalence has decreased in this project from 19.94 per thousand as observed in the first survey. The child prevalence has likewise decreased from 9.40 to 4.09 in the project.

PY - 1985 SP - 575 EP - 87 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - A sample survey of leprosy in the ELEP Leprosy Control Project, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. VL - 57 SN - 0254-9395 ER -