was a Japanese physician who worked in Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium,

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, Japan, between 1938 and 1945. He put in-patients who were forcibly hospitalized under strict control; a special facility was built with barbed wire fences and in-patients were not allowed to leave. In 1945, 110 in-patients died of

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, malnutrition, and as direct effects of air attacks, while his group escaped to the army shelter.

Life

In 1915, he graduated from Kumamoto Medical School, and he was appointed chief doctor in Ojikajima Koseien Sanatorium,

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(National Sorok Hospital). In 1938 he was appointed the director of Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium. In 1948 he became a physician in

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Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium

Tada served as the director of the Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium during

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. He intensified the strict segregation of patients through the construction of barbwired fences, and the building of a special prison.70th-year commemorative book of Miyako Nanseien (2001), p.67, Miyako Nanseien, Hirarashi At that time, two nurses performed a vasectomy and an artificial abortion, with no records of him performing either operation. Tada declared that the mark of a red cross would prevent air-raids, but the sanatorium was destroyed by air-raids. Since the houses of the sanatorium workers were also destroyed, he and other leaders of the sanatorium escaped in a shelter of the army, while 110 in-patients died either of malaria, malnutrition, or as direct effect of air-raids in 1945. After the war, he worked in

between 1947 and 1950. He died in 1950.

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References

*50th year commemorative book of Miyako Nanseien (1981), Miyako Nanseien, Hirara-shi *70th year commemorative book of Miyako Nanseien (2001), Miyako Nanseien, Hirara-shi *''Hansen's Disease and Children'' (2000), Eiji Takio, Hiroshima *''Testimony of Okinawa Prefecture Leprosy Patients'', Miyako-Nanseien-hen, (2007), Miyakojima-shi.　
ハンセン病患者の隔離収容される経緯とその意味
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tada, Kageyoshi Japanese leprologists Japanese leper hospital administrators 1950 deaths Year of birth missing