Word: culion
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...Indians, for service in the Spanish-American War. Dr. Wood's talk last week was in advocacy of a $2,000,000 fund now being quietly collected in the U. S. to alleviate, study and prevent leprosy. Chief experiments will be conducted on the Philippines pest island of Culion, where Dr. H. Windsor Wade has charge of 5,200 lepers. At one time Culion was called the Island of Despair. Now it is the Island of Hope, for Dr. Wood has been able, by a rigid regime of treatment, to discharge approximately 1,000 onetime lepers as cured...
...lepers are many. In India alone there are 8,850 lepers and 92 asylums. Just inside the East gate of Canton live 1,400 grey men; more lodge at Hokchiang, at Purulia; there is a famed colony at Molokai, Hawaii; an even more elaborate one on the island of Culion, Philippines, established by the U. S. at great expense in 1906; where the lepers have their own stores, theatres and a special kind of currency...
Further impetus was given, last week, to Governor General Leonard Wood's plea for $1,000,000 for the leper colony on the Island of Culion, the Philippines...
...story was told of the retreat founded by Dr. Victor G. Heiser. In a commandeered Government vessel, he went from port to port, herded the wretches on board, took them to Culion. There they led normal lives, received the expensive treatment of ethyl ester. Their children were born "clean...
...within a year 1,000 patients were once more receiving treatment. When it was rumored that the General was about to return to the U. S., a pathetic peition signed by more than 1,000 lepers begged him to stay. Meanwhile, the Filipino politicians were trying to oust him. Culion was made an issue, and the Filipino Legislature cut the Culion appropriations by one-third...