A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.

2020年3月31日 · People afflicted with the condition now known as Hansen’s disease—a bacterial infection that ravages the skin and nerves and can cause painful deformities—were typically ripped from their...

2015年9月9日 · Over the years, more than 8,000 leprosy patients lived on the settlement. It gradually developed into a small town, with shops, churches, and police enforcement. Paschoal Hall is the community...

Former leprosy sanatoriums and colonies can be found in Greece, Hawaii, Italy, and elsewhere. Sometimes these are referred to as ‘leper colonies’, but the term ‘leper’ is highly offensive and we encourage everyone to use the term ‘leprosy’ or ‘person affected by leprosy’.

The first recorded leper colony was in Harbledown, England. While leprosaria were common throughout Europe in the early, middle, and late Middle Ages, how leprosy was dealt with in the Middle Ages is still viewed through the "distorting lens" of "nineteenth century attempts by physicians, polemicist, and missionaries" who tried to use "the past ...

Leprosy colony founded on the Kalaupapa peninsula of the island of Molokai in modern day Hawaii. About 8,000 Hawaiians were sent to the Kalaupapa peninsula from 1866 through 1969, when the mandatory isolation law was finally lifted.

When Hansen's disease (leprosy) was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, King Kamehameha V banished all afflicted to the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north shore of Molokai. Since 1866, more than 8,000 people, mostly Hawaiians, have died at Kalaupapa.

2024年5月23日 · A leper colony is a community designed for the purpose of quarantining people with leprosy, a chronic condition caused by a bacterial infection. Formally organized leper colonies have existed since at least the Middle Ages, with some leper communities isolating themselves by choice prior to the medieval period.

They were sent to live in isolated communities known as leper colonies, or leprosaria, where they spent their lives suffering out of view of the uninfected people who so feared them. Fortunately, though leprosy has not completely vanished, today people with the disease are seldom treated in such an inhumane fashion.

On a beautiful location in the Hawaiian archipelago, one settlement has a ghastly past: Kalaupapa's residents were stranded there because they had Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy. Their chilling story is relayed in the NIH's National Library of Medicine multimedia exhibition, "Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness."