Kuryu Rakusen-en Sanatorium


Kuryū Rakusen-en Sanatorium, or National Sanatorium Kuryū Rakusen-en is a sanatorium for leprosy or ex-leprosy patients situated at Kusatsu-machi, Azuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture, Japan which started in 1932.

History

Pre-Rakusen-en days

The number of in-patients is the sum of patients which changed not only by the newly diagnosed hospitalized and those who died among in-patients, by other factors such as the number of patients who escaped or were discharged, depending on the condition of the times. Recently they were encouraged to be discharged, but the long period of the segregation policy causing leprosy stigma might influence the number of those who went into the society.
YearNumber of in-patients
19451314
19501040
19551064
1960994
1965911
1970811
1975777
1980689
1985580
1990477
1995401
1999309

YearNumber of in-patients
2003251
2004236
2005223
2006200
2007186
2008169