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	The Lepers of Molokai
		That a leper is unclean, however, should be insisted upon; and the segregation of lepers, from what little is known of the disease, should be rigidly maintained.
		Lepers and non-lepers were using the same guns, and all were rubbing shoulders in the confined space.
		If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time the leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.
	carl-bell-2.baylor.edu /~bellc/JL/TheLepersOfMolokai.html (0 words)

	Leper colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A leper colony or leprosarium is a place to quarantine people with leprosy (Hansen's disease) from the rest of the population.
		While some colonies were located on islands or in remote locations in order to ensure quarantine, some leper houses were placed on main roads, where donations would be made for their upkeep.
		In 2001, government-run leper colonies in Japan came under judicial scrutiny, leading to the determination that the Japanese government had mistreated the patients, and the District Court ordered Japan to pay compensation to former patients [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leper_colony (566 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for lepers
		Kalawao village, now abandoned, was the site of the original leper colony (leprosy) established by King Kamehameha V in...
		In the Gospel According to Luke, he was the poor man in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, and in the Middle Ages he was honoured as the patron of lepers.
		Lepers ride in motorised transport as they take part in a rally...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=lepers (677 words)

	NPR : Fear and Loathing in Hawaii: 'Colony'
		With the establishment of the colony on Molokai, officials initiated what would prove to be the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history, and perhaps the most misguided.
		At its height in 1890, the population in the Molokai colony reached 1,174, and it was arguably the most famous small community in the world.
		The colony commanded intense scrutiny in the American press, and became the subject of presidential inquiries, heated congressional debate, and irrational public fear.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5183996 (1976 words)

	The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai - By John Tayman
		The Colony is the story of the tiny, tortured community the lepers created, fighting prejudice, starvation, the elements, one another and their disease--which, we now know, was never particularly contagious.
		As the colony began to grow, it garnered attention from around the world, and missionaries such as kindhearted Father Damian came to bring religious services to the patients and writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London traveled to Molokai to chronicle the plight of the colonists.
		The Colony is the tragic tale of the thousands of men, women, and children determined (sometimes erroneously) to have leprosy and who were sent into forced exile on Hawaii's remote Molokai peninsula owing to a radical miscomprehension about the disease.
	www.johntayman.com /thebook/reviews.php (0 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Somali's forgotten lepers at risk
		More than 900 Somali lepers are on the verge of death because they have run out of food and medicine, their leader says.
		Some 490 of the lepers had injured legs and hands and so were unable to leave the camp to seek aid, he said.
		He said that he was worried that the disease could spread to the rest of the town if the lepers left their camp due to the desperate conditions there.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3806265.stm (298 words)

	Ayios Nikolaos & a Leper Colony
		As the industry declined the island was converted to a leper colony with new (in the 1930’s) buildings and the fortifications and Ottoman residences were allowed to crumble.
		The leper colony was closed in 1953 and the island has been deserted since, except for recent historical and tourist interests.
		As well as the leper cemetery, we could see the leper colony’s derelict buildings contrasting in their relatively modern rectangular stuccoed flat roofs with the battlements and the derelict Ottoman residences.
	www.searoom.com /veleda/logsec06/veleda4-log33F.htm (2183 words)

	How You Can Help - Sponsor a Leper Colony (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By Sponsoring a colony, you will enable us to bring more than the monthly allotment of rice and beans we are currently able to deliver.
		Also, a veterinarian was hired to come to the colony twice a week to give instructions on the care of the animals and watch over the health of the cows.
		These loans must be repaid into the colony bank, which will then turn around and use it to provide more micro-loans for the leprosy-affected people in their respective colony.
	www.risingstaroutreach.org /sponsor_leper.htm (514 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Founded by the British in 1895, the Srinagar leper colony, which has no formal name, was created to be a place of quarantine and isolation — a walled-off enclosure to protect outsiders from the dreaded disease.
		His recollections of life as a leper before coming to the colony are nightmarish.
		Like others, what Samad found when he came to the leper colony was not a well, but a home.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main5.asp?filename=Ne082804a_place_to.asp (432 words)

	Blessed Father Damien
		His bronze figure graces the statuary hall in Washington, D.C. Damien's compassion for the lepers led him to spend sixteen years in the "living graveyard that was Molokai," where he died at the age of forty-nine in service to people suffering from the terrible disease of leprosy.
		Lepers were ordered to wear bells around their necks to warn people of their approach.
		When lepers died, their poor bodies were thrown into graves so shallow that pigs and dogs grew fat feasting on their flesh.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/DAMIEN.htm (0 words)

	Phudhong Leper Foundation
		It is the aim of the Phud Hong Leper Foundation to continue to give help and encouragement to these patients and their families, to help them help themselves and to make positive contributions to society rather than become a burden to the country.
		However, the story graphically illustrates the deep affection the children of the Phud Hong Leper colony held for the man who has come to be known as Khun Por or Father at the colony he had been supporting for the past 20 years.
		Once at the colony he mixed freely with patients and their dependents alike, but he seemed most happy when surrounded by the children, handing out exercise books and pencils or doling out packets of instant noodles, or even 10-baht notes form his own pocket.
	www.bangkokpost.com /phudhong/phud1.html (1791 words)

	Hawaii: Searching For Koolau The Leper - Pology Magazine
		In the 1860’s, under the reign of King Kamehameha V, all those suspected of having contracted leprosy in Hawaii were ordered to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.
		In his fiction, London describes how the families of the lepers would wail at the docks as they watched their loved ones sail off to die in exile.
		Koolau convinced them to escape the fate of the leper colony at Molokai and follow into the woods in the hope of finding peace.
	www.pology.com /article/05914.html (827 words)

	Palo Seco Leper Colony Tokens
		The Palo Seco Leper Asylum was established on April 10, 1907.
		The lepers were allowed to eat at a mess the food prepared for them or to draw their ration uncooked and do their own cooking.
		The produce was purchased by the facility for the use of the colony.
	www.coins-of-panama.com /paloseco.html (0 words)

	Tiphanie Yanique: How to Escape from a Leper Colony
		The volunteers at the leper colony were Trinidadian doctors and British journalists and criminals forfeiting time in jail for time among lepers and sometimes smooth-faced men who carried tiny Bibles in their pockets.
		To the rest of the colony, lepers and nuns and volunteers, it would be okay for us to marry.
		Lepers hoping a shark would come and eat their legs off so at least they’d be lighter and their bodies would stop being a dead weight.
	bostonreview.net /BR31.3/yanique.html (4165 words)

	Hawaii: Searching For Koolau The Leper - Pology Magazine
		In the 1860’s, under the reign of King Kamehameha V, all those suspected of having contracted leprosy in Hawaii were ordered to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.
		In his fiction, London describes how the families of the lepers would wail at the docks as they watched their loved ones sail off to die in exile.
		Koolau convinced them to escape the fate of the leper colony at Molokai and follow into the woods in the hope of finding peace.
	pology.com /article/05914.html (827 words)

	Remembering Kalaupapa ~ The Doc Cooke Years 1925-1939
		The leper colony has been dramatized and fictionalized until it is known over the world as a spot of veiled mystery, a cursed place where cursed men are banished to await death, a place where martyrs sacrifice their lives in a beautiful attenuation of human suffering.
		The leper population of the settlement was four hundred and fourteen when I was there.
		But what he said, in substance, was that he felt that in order to serve God amoung the lepers he must go through the leveling spiritual experience of attaining that same "other world" in which the lepers lived.
	www.whirledwydeweb.com /kalaupapa/colony.html (7362 words)

	Outcasts
		It seems that South Africa's oldest leper colony and its 125 year-old hospital is to be developed by a consortium that includes present-day residents of the colony.
		Now the transition from leper colony to prison for political outcasts is not as radical as we might imagine.
		And in that face-to-face encounter, the life of the leper is transformed.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/ricsa/about/staffpgs/leper.htm (1750 words)

	Life In The Leper Colony (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The leper who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, `Unclean, unclean.' He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp.
		Since spontaneous healing of these skin diseases was rare, most lepers had to live out their lives in the wilderness.
		Even in modern times, leper colonies in such places as Carrville, Louisiana, or the Hawaiian island of Molokai served to isolate the afflicted in places where only their caregivers had close contact with them.
	members.aol.com /gnlnews/lepers.html (1220 words)

	Leper Colony Cartoons
		Leper Colony cartoon 1 - catalog reference mba0487
		Leper Colony cartoon 2 - catalog reference jkon568
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/l/leper_colony.asp (0 words)

	Lepers, Natives, and Nations
		The reconfiguration of the leper colony as/into penal colony in
		colonial, imperial) also constituted it as an exception to the social body of the new territorial acquisitions.
		The native to this place of Hawaiian originality or authenticity is in fact a historical hybrid, a body that has been contextualized and re-contextualized in accordance with the demands of political economy in the U.S and its territories.
	www.slack.net /~kiki/cabras.htm (4011 words)

	Leprosy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2001, government-run leper colonies in Japan came under judicial scrutiny, leading to the determination that the Japanese government had mistreated the patients, and the District Court ordered Japan to pay compensation to former patients.
		Saint Radegund was noted for washing the feet of lepers, and Orderic Vitalis writes of a monk, Ralf, who was so overcome by the plight of the leper that he prayed to catch leprosy himself (which he eventually did).
		The leper would carry a clapper and bell to warn of his approach, and this was as much to attract attention for charity as to warn people that a diseased person was near.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leper (2397 words)

	Alibris: Leprosy
		The medieval leper is a pathetic figure; records of the remarkable survival of a leper colony in Scandinavia until the early years of the 20th century provides a window onto the reality of this tragic disease.
		Chosen by his family to accompany his ailing father to a leper colony, a teenage boy finds refuge from oppressive surroundings in the hacienda of a landowner outside the leper village.
		"Leprosy in Colonial South India" is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Leprosy (660 words)

	The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai \| The A.V. Club
		But "leper" is still shorthand for an untouchable—someone so thoroughly contaminated, inside and out, that a healthy community will have nothing to do with him.
		When the territorial government of Hawaii established the Molokai leper colony in 1866, everyone agreed that the disease was aggressive, contagious, and invariably fatal, and many argued that all Christians should demand obedience to Old Testament laws concerning the unclean.
		As the 20th century dawns and the U.S. government explores the possibility of a national leper colony (to solve what The Washington Post called "the leper problem in the United States"), the light of reason seems permanently obscured by ancient prejudice and fear.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/47349 (638 words)

	Cindrich, Lisa. In the shadow of the pali; a story of the Hawaiian leper colony - Brief Article - Young Adult Review - ...
		It is a story of courage, however, as young Liliha is forced to leave her family to go alone to the Hawaiian leper colony at Kalaupapa--before Father Damien arrived in 1873 to make the conditions there more humane.
		It's a horror story in many ways, of a girl struggling against all sorts of evil--from the uncle who forced her as a child to care for her diseased grandmother, which probably caused her infection, to the disease itself, to the betrayal of authorities.
		Cindrich describes the horror of the leper colony and also the beauty of the place in ways that make the story fascinating.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_4_36/ai_111165577 (382 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Europe's last leper colony lives on
		Since 1991 residents have been free to leave the colony's shady grounds, but after spending most of their lives there, few of them have rushed to seize this opportunity.
		While in other European countries lepers were treated and sent back into society, in Romania they grew up, got married had children within the colony.
		The lepers at Tichilesti were always treated well by local villagers - it was often the staff who were the least comfortable with the patients.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1639335.stm (962 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Leper colony subject of new novel
		It is in Plaka, across from the leper colony of Spinalonga, that Alexis first hears, through a childhood friend, her mother’s full history and discovers the secrets she’s kept hidden throughout the years.
		The colony is described as a bustling, almost happy community, something that seems to jar with its very function.
		But love conquers all, even in the leper colony, and the patient and good reap rewards while the bad and intolerant get their just desserts.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_5512850_26/05/2005_56772 (746 words)

	The Leper Colony of NannyMUD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lepers are of course feared, hated and looked down on, but not only for their horrible affliction; along with the mutation, the lepers gained unbelievable powers.
		Being so despised, lepers tend to team up and help eachother to survive and as they team up, their powers grow even stronger.
		To reach the colony, you should walk south to the south coast, make a turn to the west for a while and then south once more.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nanny/guilds/lepers/index.html (332 words)

	Amazon.com: The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai: Books: John Tayman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history of "The Colony" on Molokai will make the reader angry and ashamed of how the lepers were condemned, exiled, cut off from the world as if they were subhuman.
		I have a personal interest in the leper colony at Molokai as Donald Walsh, one of its early superintendents, was a brother of my great-grandfather.
		Tayman's account of the leper colony on Molokai and its history is fascinating and brilliantly written.He clearly shows us the various characters involved over a century of "medical segregation" as he calls it.
	www.amazon.com /Colony-Harrowing-Story-Exiles-Molokai/dp/074323300X (2133 words)

	leper - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leprosy can be treated effectively with several drugs, but if left...
		Leprosy, charitable work with lepers, Gusau, Molokai, Onitsha
		Molokai : leper colony: picture of Father Damien
	encarta.msn.com /leper.html (90 words)

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