Comparison of slum survey, school survey and health education as methods of detection of leprosy cases in urban area.

The present study includes the analysis of different methods of survey adopted by the Shram Mandir Trust in its urban leprosy control unit of Baroda. The results are obtained from the work of the Trust of the last decade (i.e. from 1972 to 1982). It reveals that Slum Survey (1.90/1000) has better results as compared to school survey (0.29/1000). 91 cases were detected in one year from 1-4-1981 to 31-3-1982; 38 were through slum survey (41.76%) and 37 were through health education (40.66%). (School Survey was not carried.) Thus health education has a very important place in case detection.