The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony - Benjamin Kingsbury Format_Paperback Thumb-tabbed chapters

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The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony - Benjamin Kingsbury Format_Paperback Thumb-tabbed chaptersFrom 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution an embarrassment to the Health Department, an object of pity to a few, a source of fear to many. It was a place that some people wanted to forget, but its stories are