Mamoru Uchida

Male, Person

1900 –

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Who is Mamoru Uchida?

Mamoru Uchida was an ophthalmologist who worked for leprosy patients at Kyushu Sanatorium, Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium, and Matsuoka Hoyoen Sanatorium. He taught leprosy patients tanka, in these sanatoriums. Later, he studied social welfare as a professor at Kumamoto Junior College. He extensively studied the history of leprosy, and presented many documents to the Kumamoto Prefectural Library as Uchida Library; 338 items were shown at an exhibition of Hansen's disease and literature in 2003.

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Born
1900
Kikuchi District, Kumamoto

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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