Board of Hospitals and Settlement
- Corporate body
- 1931-1949
In 1931, the Board of Hospitals and Settlement replaced the bureau of leprosy to operate the receiving stations, hospitals, boys' and girls' homes, and the Kalaupapa Settlement of the bureau for the treatment of leprosy. Between 1947 and 1951 the separate bureaus for the treatment of various infectious diseases were brought under the Division of Preventive Medicine, along with other bureaus, for the better coordination of resources. The treatment of leprosy remained separated under an independent board. In 1949, however, the Board of Hospitals and Settlement was reintegrated into the Board of Health, and it was renamed the Hansen's Disease Division in 1951.