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The communities where people with leprosy lived were under the administration of the Board of Health, which appointed superintendents on the island. Kalaupapa is located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula at the base of sea cliffs that rise 2,000 feet (610 m) above the Pacific Ocean. In the 1870s a community to support the leper colony was established ...
In total over the decades, more than 8,500 men, women and children living throughout the Hawaiian islands and diagnosed with leprosy were exiled to the colony by the Hawaiian government and legally declared dead. This public health measure was continued after the Kingdom became a U.S. territory.
Kalaupapa National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Molokaʻi.Coterminous with the boundaries of Kalawao County [citation needed] and primarily on Kalaupapa peninsula, it was established by Congress in 1980 to expand upon the earlier National Historic Landmark site of the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement.
Kalawao (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kələˈvɐo̯]) is a location on the eastern side of the Kalaupapa Peninsula of the island of Molokai, in Hawaii, which was the site of Hawaii's leper colony between 1866 and the early 20th century. Thousands of people in total came to the island to live in quarantine.
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai SSCC or Saint Damien De Veuster (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), [2] born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, [3] a missionary religious institute.
Module:Location map/data/United States Hawaii (island) is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Hawaii (island). The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Module:Location map/data/USA Hawaiian Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Hawaiian Islands. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Leper War on Kauaʻi also known as the Koʻolau Rebellion, Battle of Kalalau, or the short name, the Leper War. Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom , the stricter government enforced the 1865 "Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy " carried out by Attorney General and President of the Board of Health William Owen Smith .