Settled in Calcutta, Alice M. Hayes began visiting the government leper asylum and found Europeans and Eurasians with the disease abandoned by family and officialdom alike. She describes the patients she befriended, her running battles with officials and newspapers, her subscription fund and the public meeting that pressed for a proper home for them.
A personal record of compassion and stubbornness, valuable for the history of leprosy care in colonial India. Download the free EPUB.