Report on a Visit to the Leper Island of Culion and on the Anti-Leprosy Work in the Philippine Islands
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This anti-leprosy work which has been carried out in the Philippine Islands during the last 19 years is valuable not only for what it has done to stamp the disease out of these islands, but also for the stimulus which it has given to similar work in India and in other parts of the world. It was, therefore, with keen expectation that I looked forward to my visit to the leper island of Culion. 'The Americans, on their occupation of the Philippine Islands, noticed the large numbers of lepers frequenting public places and engaged in occupations which rendered them a danger to the general community, and it was determined in 1906 to remove this menace by the deportation of all bacteriologically positive lepers to Culion, an
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