The Culion leper colony is a former leprosarium located on Culion, an island in the Palawan province of the Philippines. It was established by the U.S...
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Philippine peso (redirect from Culion leper colony currency)
20 million pesos. The US territorial administration also issued Culion leper colony coinage between 1913 and 1930. When the Philippines became a U.S...
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(later copper-nickel) coins were minted in Manila for use in the Culion leper colony of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (then under the...
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transferred the jurisdiction and control of Culion from the Municipality of Coron, reserving the same as a leper colony and a government stock farm. On May 27...
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Somers (1929). "The Leper Colony Currency of Colon". Numismatic Notes and Monographs. Arcilla, José S. (2009). "The Culion Leper Colony, 1900s–1970s". Philippine...
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Palawan once known as a major leper colony. Three women afflicted with leprosy live a life of stigmatization in Culion at a time when the disease is considered...
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colonies.[citation needed] In 1904 a leper colony was founded in the Philippines on a remote island called Culion, also known as the Island of Living Dead...
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Leonard Wood (category Culion leper colony)
of malaria. In 1925, Dorothy Wade, wife of the head doctor at the Culion leper colony, and fundraiser Perry Burgess created a charitable committee that...
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Philippine director of Health. In this capacity he also ran the Culion leper Colony and traveled the world many times over. He kept journals, wrote memoirs...
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Herbert Wade (medical doctor) (category Culion leper colony)
Culion, Philippines, June 8, 1968) was an American medical doctor notable for his work on leprosy. He served as Medical Director of the Culion leper colony...
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