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Show DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1 - 5, 1 973 MD quiis practice for leprosarium Once a place of horror where leprosy victims were left on the rocks to live or die, Kaiaupapa today is a pictuiesque community of neat cottages and a few shops Since leprosy is not a very contagious disease, tours are conducted througn the settlement Kalaupapa is sort of unique, and perhaps many individuals wouldnt be interested m settling here, Koch said of the long period without a doctor. Although extensive tr atment facilities are available a snort plane fngni away in Honolulu and there is no longer any need to isolate patients at Kalaupapa. the residents actively resist any efforts to phase out the place they can comfortably call home The presence of scars, shortened fingc rs and crippled limbs make most of the patients reluctant to face the outer world Present plans are to phase out Kalaupapa after the present residents die, and Koch feels there is a definite need to maintain the settlement until that time For many of them, th S IS THE ONLY LIFE THEY KNOW, he said always been intrigued by leprosy puzzling disease, and it's quiet and peaceful here after the rat race." Leamng back in a chair at his desk, Koch said that he found Kalaupapa so gratifying he planned to stay indefinitely packed up with his wife and settled in the Uny town cut off from tne rest of me isiana oy steep black cliffs and accessible only by a mountain trail, sea or airplane The KALAUPAPA, HAWAII (UPI) scarred residents of a lonely leprosy settlement finally have a resident physician. Dr. L. Charles Koch gave up a busy California practice o se tie where other doctors wouldnt, ui the remoti community of Kalaup-ap- a on a tiny peninsula jjtting into the Pacific Ocean For the first time since 1971, the 150 persons living in Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian lslane of Molokai have a resident physician to tend their ills Koch, who worked in Boston, Los Angeles ana Santa Cruz, Calif , saw a help wanted ad placed by Hawaiis department of health for the position on Molokai and decided to answer the ad even tuough it was months old bv then When his application was accepted. 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