Word: kalaupapa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...care in an empty room furnished only by their waiting coffins. In his 16 years of heroic service on Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing...
Nevertheless, Kalaupapa, operated for the last 84 years as a self-supporting isolation colony, has fallen behind the times. Hawaii's bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance...
...present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent home (now only scientific pictures...
...Leprosy is less contagious than almost any other communicable disease" [TIME, 17] is correct up to a certain point but should be amplified. It is the adult who is highly resistant-though in the history of Kalaupapa Settlement of Hawaii two missionaries, both . . . indifferent regarding contact, have acquired the infection...
...have missed an issue of your timely magazine, and may thus seem ignorant of recent developments, but what has happened to Hawaii? Has it been secretly anschlussed by Japan? Have the ocean waves risen to engulf it-Navy, pineapples, Kalaupapa leper settlement and all? Or are your editors ignorant of the fact that the Organic Act declares Hawaii to be an American Territory, "an integral part...