People
The major spoken language is Tamil. Majority of people are weavers, farmers, safety matches factory worker and beedis factory workers.
This town was one of the highest endemic areas for leprosy in India with more than 2000 new cases detected annually in the 1960s. Even now the region has not reached the World Health Organisation (WHO) elimination target of less than 1 leprosy patient per 10,000 population. This led to the establishment of "The Schieffelin Leprosy Research and Training Centre (SLRTC)- Karigiri" which had a leprosy control program in this area and actively recruited patients for treatment with multi-drug-therapy (MDT) and is still providing extra ordinary treatment to those suffering from leprosy, coming from the surrounding areas
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“I never could get on with representative individuals—but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.”
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