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Mar 31, 2020 · A tiny number of Hansen’s disease patients still remain at Kalaupapa, a leprosarium established in 1866 on a remote, but breathtakingly beautiful spit of land on the Hawaiian island of Molokai....
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Today, about four people who formerly had leprosy continue to live there. The colony is now included within Kalaupapa National Historical Park. The original leper colony was first established in Kalawao in the east, opposite to the village corner of the peninsula.
The area achieved notoriety when the Kingdom of Hawai'i instituted a century-long policy of forced segregation of persons afflicted with Hansen's disease, more commonly known as leprosy. This mysterious and dreaded disease reached epidemic proportions in the islands in the late 1800s.
Sep 9, 2015 · The remote Kalaupapa peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai housed a settlement for Leprosy patients from 1866 to 1969. When it was closed, many residents chose to remain. Courtesy...
Jan 3, 2024 · OSV News. KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — “Aloha” isn’t just a greeting. It means the Hawaiian spirit of deeply giving in friendship and deeds, a creed St. Damien de Veuster (born Jozef de Veuster) lived by as he cared for the people he called his “children” suffering leprosy in the 19th century.
May 27, 2015 · Kalaupapa, Hawaii, is a former leprosy colony that’s still home to several of the people who were exiled there through the 1960s. Once they all pass away, the federal government wants to open...
May 11, 2021 · In an effort to stop the spread of Hansen’s disease, the Kingdom of Hawaii passed “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy” in 1865, and designated Kalaupapa as the place where those with...
