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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...