Eichi was most enthusiastic about social activities in the business world and served as the president of nursing house at the request of Tokyo City and was involved in the establishment of Tokyo Jikei Kai, Japanese Red Cross Society and Rai Yobo Kyokai (Japan preventive association for leprosy) and served as the first presidents of St.Lukes International Hospital and Takinogawa-Gakuen and the Japanese chairman of the YMCA pacific rim liaison conference.
栄一は実業界の中でも最も社会活動に熱心で、東京市からの要請で養育院の院長を務めたほか、東京慈恵会、日本赤十字社、癩予防協会の設立などに携わり財団法人聖路加国際病院初代理事長、財団法人滝乃川学園初代理事長、YMCA環太平洋連絡会議の日本側議長などもした。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
While, this decision states the following: "…The discrimination and prejudice generated by the policy on Hansen's disease, such as the Campaign for Leprosy-Free Prefectures, is clearly different in nature as compared to those that had existed earlier…. It is no exaggeration to say that the discrimination and prejudice against Hansen's disease patients, which still continues today, originated there," nevertheless many points of this campaign were left to be analyzed later. 同判決は「・・無らい県運動等のハンセン病政策によって生み出された差別・偏見は、それ以前にあったものとは明らかに性格を異にするもので、ここに、今日まで続くハンセン病患者に対する差別・偏見の原点があると言っても過言ではない。」などと指摘しているが、同運動の分析は、その多くが以後に委ねられたといえよう。 - 厚生労働省
Nevertheless, there is a fact that one must ponder very seriously: it is the fact that, despite all the differences in the context of historical development, the modern nation moved, from having allowed patients in early-modern ages to live according to their circumstances of family, regions, and communities, toward calling "leprosy" a fearful infectious disease, continuing compulsory confinement, and so convincing and unifying people's minds and the social system as to reinforce the absolute segregation of patients of the disease. が、そのような歴史の発展段階の差をさしおいてみてもなお、近世において地域や共同体、各家のありように応じた生活をしていた患者を、近代国家が「癩」を強烈な伝染病と宣伝して強制収容を続け、人々の意識と社会システムを絶対的排除へと一元化していった事実は、重く受け止めなければならない。 - 厚生労働省