LON+Success-+Leprosy

The League of Nations did achieve a high level of success socially, but it is often forgotten with the League's failures politically. The League did research on leprosy and also dealt with the Typhus fever in Russia. The League's Council urged action against the typus epidemic that was first starting in Poland.

The Health Committe (**1923** founded) changed their name to the World Health Organization (**WHO**) and worked hard to eliminate many diseases through vaccination and campaigns.The WHO helped eliminate [| Leprosy] (a particularly contagious disease in Third-World countries) through vaccination in countries such as China, India, Brazil, and Egypt. Apart from vaccination, drugs such as Dapsone, Rifampicin, and Clofazimine were distributed in the campaign against Leprosy.

Later the League also persuaded its member countries to fix minimum wages and sickness/unemployment benefits. Following the success of trying to eliminate Leprosy, the League also delivered campaigns trying to defeat malaria and yellow fever. The League kept trying to eliminate as many deadly diseaeses as they could.Smallpox and Typhus were added to the quarantinable diseases by the International Sanitary Convention in **1926**. Soon after, the League focused on eliminating malaria. The Malaria Commission was founded and they adopted a new approach, to study a disease in places where it existed rather than to work out teh precautions needed to prevent its spread from country to country.

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