The Philippines can claim to have the ‘best-preserved collection of any one artist in the country and in Asia’ as cinema king ...

Quezon added in 2011; regional, comprising the Culion Leprosy archives, the Doctrina Christiana of 1593, the Hinilawod Epic chant recordings, and the Quezon papers added in 2010; and national, which ...

In December 1912, Guam Naval Gov. R.E. Coontz received orders to banish the CHamoru patients to the infamous Culion Island leper colony in the Philippines. As the lepers were forced to walk from ...

Culion, at that time, was not a typical tourist destination. It was known as a leper colony—or the “island of no return”—as many individuals afflicted with the dreaded disease were ...

The inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ...

At Culion, Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at ...

The Culion Leper Colony began its operation with the arrival of the first batch of patients from Cebu. Under Act No. 1711 of the Philippine Commission, people afflicted with leprosy were forcibly ...

The Tagbanwa of Calauit learned that they had to move to another island, Culion, a former leper colony. The former site of the village, now occupied by the safari park, on May 15, 2022.

The island was so remote that it also earned the moniker "Island of No Return." On October 27, 1902, the Culion Leper Colony was created under the Director of Health Victor Heiser. Construction didn't ...