During the early nineteenth century, a series of foreign diseases decimated Hawai'i's native population. To prevent a potential leprosy epidemic during the 1860s, Hawai'i's Board of Health established the Kalaupapa settlement to confine the disease. However, in the protection of life, the injustice of segregation arose.
Photo courtesy of the Baker/Van Dyke Collection from the Kamehameha Schools Archives.
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Photo courtesy of the March 2008 edition of the Northwest Hawaii Times.
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Photo courtesy of the Baker/Van Dyke Collection from the Kamehameha Schools Archives.
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Thesis
The establishment of the isolated Kalaupapa leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i sparked the conflict between the responsibility of Hawai’i’s Board of Health to contain the spread of disease versus the human rights of the patients, resulting in ethical protocol for handling potential disease outbreaks and improved methods of treating those afflicted with the disease.
Photo courtesy of Emmett Cahill's Yesterday at Kalaupapa (1991).
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"Himeni O Kalaupapa: 'The Song of Exile'"
Written by Samuel Kauwalu (1972)
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Maps courtesy of the Kamehameha School's Midkiff Library (1975).
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