The special feature of the measure against Hansen's disease in comparison with the measure against tuberculosis at modern times

结核病和汉森病都是慢性传染病，都是正夫政府的政策对象。然而，尽管肺结核患者没有被隔离，但汉森病患者被隔离。虽然国家通过早发现、早治疗使肺结核患者康复，并敦促将其作为“人力资源”加以利用，但并不认为导致严重身体残疾的汉森病患者是“人力资源”。“因此，即使对汉森病患者进行了强制隔离，他康复了，也不允许离开疗养院。

Both tuberculosis and Hansen's disease are chronic infection, and were made into the object of the Masao policy. However, although the tuberculosis patient was not isolated, the sufferer of Hansen's disease was isolated. Although the state rehabilitated the tuberculosis patient by early detection and early treatment and urged it to utilize as "human resources", it did not consider that the sufferers of Hansen's disease who bring about a serious physical disability were "human resources." Therefore, even if forced isolation of the sufferer of Hansen's disease was carried out and he recovered, it was not allowed to come out of a sanatorium.