Small town of Leprosy
- Higashimurayama city Aoba cho
- What is here?
- Tama zenshoen Sanatorium.
- What sanatorium is it?
- Leprosy.
- The road is too narrow for cars.
- This width is old road size of Japan.
- I feel like I travel to the past.
- There are many old buildings here.
- What is that building?
- This is a church.
- In the other side.
- Is that a temple?
- There is the Shinto shrine, too.
- This place is like a small town.
- There are everything you need here.
- I'm stuffy.
- The lepers could never go out of here.
- Why?
- This is because it prevents infection.
- Is the infection power of leprosy strong?
- No. The infection power is weak.
- Why did they shut in them here?
- In old days. The people were afraid of leprosy.
- Even now?
- Misunderstanding was removed.
- And you can go in and out freely now.
- If there was a fire, what did they do?
- Nobody comes to the rescue.
- Patients extinguished a fire by themselves.
- They could marry at a church.
- It was prohibition to have a child.
- Is the disease inherited?
- No.
- They thought that the leprosy was inherited.
- I'm confused.
- What kind of disease is leprosy?
- Mycobacterium leprae infects a nerve.
- The patient does not feel a sense and a pain.
- They don't notice even if hurt.
- If I am infected with leprosy, what should I do?
- Go to the department of dermatology.
- When treatment is delayed, there are aftereffects.
- The aftereffects are paralyzed on hands.
- How cure?
- Take an antibiotic.
- It is 1943 that a specific medicine was announced.
- Does the patient isolate it now?
- It was abolished in Japan in 1996.
- Is there the present leper?
- It is rare.
- Can the patient have a child?
- No problem.
- The history is cruel.
- Let's go to Mitaka Station. I can talk about the railway mystery.
