Show lEPER COW COLONY L LURES MANY HEALTHY FOLK Br n Sortie Kalaupapa Molokai n. n T T. Aug Ul 1 B By Mall The Mall The Idea of or a human beIn being being be be- In ing enjoying good tood health disguising himself and trying to gain aln admission to lo a it leper asylum strikes ono one as too absurd for tor belief helleC or Inevitably Inc makes one ono believe o that the person trying to break Into such un an assemblage Is In ln sane For leprosy remains the tho most dreaded of oC all diseases that the hu human human human hu- hu man bod body Is subject to and one of the Ce few that the advancement of oC medical and chemical knowledge c has been un- un ablo ahl to find InrI a n. cure euro for Cor Yet Instances are arc recorded of oC na native na- na tive tite HawaIIans In perfect health who havo have tried to disguise themselves hems as ns lepers and gain aln admission Into Hawaii's Ha lIa wails alls famous C leper 1011 asylum allum on this island Igland The peninsula o of on the north side of oC the Island was Wa set apart for Cor a lep leper r colony b by the government of or Hawaii In 1865 ha has since been use used exclusively for Cor that purpose The colon colony embraces embraceR a fertile tract traCtor of or acres surrounded on three sides b by the oc ocean an and landward b by bya a n hl high h cliff between 2000 and feet Ceet In height which completely shuts It 0 off from rom rein tho the rest resl of or orthe the tho Island and anU makes It impossible for th the lepers to steal teal back to their homes and mingle lc with their relatives even If Ir they wished to do so Those who contract el the dread drea disease dig dis ease case arc are sen sent t to Molokai for Cor life lite Here they are arc tenderly cured cared for althe al at atthe the expense of or the government which makes an annual appropriation of or to maintain the settlement nt It should he be remembered that the population population population lation of ot the Hawaiian Islands In only about The Episcopal church has for Cor years had a cler clergyman stationed d at lh the tho I leper settlement to minister so 80 far as aR 14 lay In his Ills power to the tho spiritual needs need s of or the living dead men In addition to Its schools and churches for or the natives c the Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal Episco- Episco pal church maintains missions amon among the tho Japanese Chinese an and Koreans In Inthe Inthe inthe the Islands Island of oC whom the Japanese alone are arc more than three times as numerous 3 as the Hawaiians All of oC these undertakings will benefit bene bene- fit It through h the Episcopal wide nation-wide campaign campal n to further the home homo and foreign activities of oC whatever nature of or that church There Thero are arc about abou t 1000 persons In the leper community They are arc provided with churches and reading rooms room Everything possible Is lone done by the government and b by the churches In the islands to alleviate their misery and sufferings s. |