De lazareto a leprosário: políticas de combate a lepra em Manaus (1921-1942)

Abstract

This search sought to analyze the leprosy fighting policies deployed in Manaus in the period 1921, time of installation of the Amazon Rural Prophylaxis Service, agency responsible for the State Public Health which fought for the giving of the Paricatuba lands to the construction of the first leper hospital in Manaus. Paricatuba, that time, is an island where the only access is by boat, these leper hospital internal were isolated for their whole lives. The leper hospital worked since 1930, it s inauguration year by mi-1980, when was vandalized, according to information obtained, ordered by the State Government itself to oblige the internal to live at Colônia Antônio Aleixo , the new leper hospital. Paricatuba which had the name Vila Belizário Pena was reformulated to meet the precepts of hygiene defined by the Departamento Nacional de Saúde Pública. The final point of this search is the year of 1942 when new leprosy fighting policies are inserted in the city and there s a new activity to the Colônia Antônio Aleixo which was located in the rural Manaus and its access routes were going to land. This date of 1942 also marks the end of compulsory isolation and leprosy, according to doctors, could be treated as a common disease.