1907年日本颁布麻风防治法。1909年依此由地方政府出资建5所麻风院,共收657人,而社会上无钱住院的病人约有1万名。此前只东京养育所到1905年的8年间仅收容122人,其中57人死亡,40人逃走。1920年又新颁防治法,增一国立麻风院,总病床数欲加到5000张,到1931年结果只建成2704床。1930年制订20年消灭麻风的计划,要再增5000 Japan promulgated leprosy control law in 1907. In 1909, 5 leprosy hospitals were set up by local governments to receive a total of 657 people. There were about 10,000 hospitalized patients without money in the society. Before that, only Tokyo Foster House housed only 122 people in 1905, of which 57 were dead and 40 escaped. In 1920, a new law of prevention and control was newly enacted to increase the number of national leprosy hospitals and the total number of hospital beds to 5,000. By 1931, only 2704 beds were completed. In 1930 20 years to develop a plan to eliminate leprosy, to an additional 5000