The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills

caption: Inspection of the Wakching dispensary
medium: tours
keywords: syphilis campaignleprosy
person: Dhawara Mech
location: Wakching
date: 24.10.1923
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 9.10.1923
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 24th
text: To Wakching. I visited the dispensary. The anti-syphilitic campaign has worked wonders. I have never known Rs.1000/- spent to better purpose, and the S.A.S.- Dhawara Mech - is to be congratulated on his excellent work. I wish his two years here were not coming to an end. What we want now is an anti-leprotic campaign on the same time, as there are three leper segregations within reach, but it is too much, perhaps, to expect two such good S.A.S. running, and we may get stuck with a useless man, as at Wokha apparently.