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The communities where people with leprosy lived were under the administration of the Board of Health, which appointed superintendents on the island. Kalaupapa is located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula at the base of sea cliffs that rise 2,000 feet (610 m) above the Pacific Ocean. In the 1870s a community to support the leper colony was established ...
Kalaupapa National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Molokaʻi.Coterminous with the boundaries of Kalawao County and primarily on Kalaupapa peninsula, it was established by Congress in 1980 to expand upon the earlier National Historic Landmark site of the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement.
Beginning at around 1865, residents of Hawaii that were thought to be infected with Hansen's Disease were labeled "lepers" and were forcefully removed to a very remote section of Molokai called Kalaupapa. [13] This "leper colony" was demanded by Western advisors, who stated that this was the only solution. [5]
Kalaupapa National Historical Park on the north side of Molokaʻi was the site of forced isolation for patients with leprosy. At this national park in Hawaiʻi, a natural paradise and a medical ...
The legislature passed a control act requiring quarantine of people with leprosy. The government established Kalawao located on the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula on the northern side of Molokai, followed by Kalaupapa as the sites of a leper colony that operated from 1866 to 1969. Because Kalaupapa had a better climate and sea access, it ...
With the coming of more immigrants from Asia, cases of leprosy began to appear around the Hawaiian islands in the late 19th century.As it spreads, a colony for the isolation and care of lepers was established on the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula on the northern side of the island of Molokai.
Kalawao (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kələˈvɐo̯]) is a location on the eastern side of the Kalaupapa Peninsula of the island of Molokai, in Hawaii, which was the site of Hawaii's leper colony between 1866 and the early 20th century. Thousands of people in total came to the island to live in quarantine.
Sumner married a Tahitian princess. Aided by royal family connections, he became a major landowner and politician in Hawaii. After contracting leprosy in 1877, by law Sumner was exiled to Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi. He served there as luna (superintendent) of the leper colony from 1878 to 1884. He died of leprosy in a Honolulu hospital in 1884.