The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island ColonyBridget Williams Books, 2019 M11 4 - 208 pages From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbour, 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. This remarkable narrative reveals a little-known aspect of New Zealand’s past, shedding light on the treatment of some of society’s most marginal, unfortunate and isolated people. Written in lucid, compelling prose, The Dark Island heralds the arrival of a significant historical voice. |
Contents
A very suspicious case | 1 |
Without the camp | 14 |
Bread bread scones and bread | 26 |
I get no consideration | 35 |
Leper contact | 43 |
We cannot go on | 59 |
The cattle or the lepers | 69 |
More pleasant conditions | 75 |
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The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony Benjamin Kingsbury No preview available - 2019 |
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Agriculture Department Ah Yip AJHR Alexander Turnbull Library April Archives New Zealand asked Auckland August Bakewell Buck Canterbury caretaker Carston Charles Upham chaulmoogra oil Chesson to Frengley Christchurch colony’s Cook Islands cure Department's disease doctor Father Damien fear of leprosy Fiji Fijian George Phillips Health Department Henderson Holy Trinity hospital infectious Ipirini Iringa isolation Jack Whakahi Jim Lord June Kapiti Island Kim Lee Kissel later leper contact leprosy colony leprosy patients leprosy stigma living Lyttelton Museum Mackenzie Mackenzie's mainland Makogai Māori Māori leprosy sufferers Māori patients Matawai Maui Pomare meals Molokai Nastin nurse October Pages Pākehā Parao Peter Buck Public Health Quail Island colony Quail Island inquiry quarantine quarantine station reported segregation sent to Quail September 1925 Source spread staff statement at Quail Telford Telford to Valintine Thomas thought tients told treatment Vallance Vallance's Wellington Whakahi Whanganui wharf wrote Zealand Truth