The hospital for syphilitic patients was opened at Padang (West Sumatra) somewhere in the 1870s.

The Koloniaal Verslag 1873/1874 mentions: The ‘ziekenzaal’  in the Padang prison was expanded and adapted to a capacity of 20 instead of 12 patients. The sick prostitutes at Padang who  used to be taken care of in the military hospital, now will be nursed in a separate building, adapted to house 20 women.

The Padang institution was closed together with similar hospitals in March 1911.

This closure was decided on the ground of the ineffectiveness of this measure against the problem of prostitution. Sometimes, this type of hospitals was established together with hospitals for poor indigenous patients.