O is for Ostentatious Octopus Ostracizing a Crab
It's the 15th day of February Alphabet Fun, and the We're Here! gang is visiting the group Metaphysical Leper Colony. The group lists hermits as admissible subjects, and this of course, is a hermit crab.
But I thought about the group name after I chose it for today's theme. Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) is no laughing matter, and it still exists in our world. There are hundreds of thousands of new diagnoses every year, and many who go undiagnosed. Leprosy is curable, not highly contagious, and most people have a natural immunity to it, but a lack of knowledge and understanding about the disease is one of the key challenges as we seek to defeat it entirely.
When I was a kid, as many of you know, I lived on a tiny island lighthouse (Race Rocks). Weirdly, the words "quarantine" and "leper colony" were commonplace for me, because we lived across from Albert Head, where the original Quarantine Station stood, and across from Bentinck Island -- a leper colony from 1924 to 1956. It is now a national defence site, where they test weapons.
Before Bentinck, the leper colony (also known as a lazaretto, leprosarium, or lazar house), was on D'Arcy Island. From 1891 to 1924, Chinese immigrants with leprosy were condemned to D'Arcy Island. It was basically a life sentence.
www.timescolonist.com/life/victoria-banished-chinese-lepe...
And in the U.S., a tiny number of cured Hansen’s disease patients still remain at Kalaupapa, a leprosarium established in 1866 on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
www.history.com/news/leprosy-colonies-us-quarantine
O is for Ostentatious Octopus Ostracizing a Crab
It's the 15th day of February Alphabet Fun, and the We're Here! gang is visiting the group Metaphysical Leper Colony. The group lists hermits as admissible subjects, and this of course, is a hermit crab.
But I thought about the group name after I chose it for today's theme. Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) is no laughing matter, and it still exists in our world. There are hundreds of thousands of new diagnoses every year, and many who go undiagnosed. Leprosy is curable, not highly contagious, and most people have a natural immunity to it, but a lack of knowledge and understanding about the disease is one of the key challenges as we seek to defeat it entirely.
When I was a kid, as many of you know, I lived on a tiny island lighthouse (Race Rocks). Weirdly, the words "quarantine" and "leper colony" were commonplace for me, because we lived across from Albert Head, where the original Quarantine Station stood, and across from Bentinck Island -- a leper colony from 1924 to 1956. It is now a national defence site, where they test weapons.
Before Bentinck, the leper colony (also known as a lazaretto, leprosarium, or lazar house), was on D'Arcy Island. From 1891 to 1924, Chinese immigrants with leprosy were condemned to D'Arcy Island. It was basically a life sentence.
www.timescolonist.com/life/victoria-banished-chinese-lepe...
And in the U.S., a tiny number of cured Hansen’s disease patients still remain at Kalaupapa, a leprosarium established in 1866 on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
www.history.com/news/leprosy-colonies-us-quarantine