Less well known was her campaign in support of leprosy sufferers.

The central government passed the Lepers Act of 1898, which provided legal provision for forcible confinement of leprosy sufferers in India.

In the past, leprosy sufferers were ostracized by their communities as the disease was incurable, disfiguring and wrongly thought to be highly infectious.

This was a vast centre, covering an area of 200,000 sq.m., for the care of leprosy sufferers.

It appears in a chapter that addresses the very special torments of a subset of Molokai's leprosy sufferers known as the blinds.

It would be inhumane to deny all relevant leprosy sufferers the benefit of this drug.

She worked at Lepra, the charity for leprosy sufferers, and then briefly at London Weekend Television.

On one occasion forty nine leprosy sufferers were reputedly loaded onto boats which were towed out to sea and sunk.

In 1892 Wellesley toured the USA and Canada speaking about his work with leprosy sufferers.

In performing the simplest acts - turning a key, walking up steps - leprosy sufferers are prone to exerting unconscious pressure on their hands and feet.