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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The Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital is a government hospital in the Philippines. It is located in Culion, Palawan. Culion leper colony Philippine...
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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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Paul Wade, the wife of Dr. H. W. Wade, chief medical officer of the Culion leper colony in the Philippines; she had been asked by Major-General Leonard Wood...
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38,111 11,196 19 Cebu 53,848 98,700 792 Cotabato 17,826 16,490 66 Culion Leper Colony 47 420 0 Davao 11,896 19,226 1,536 Ilocos Norte 25,464 12,097 243...
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End of Everything (2017) which is set in the early 1900s in the Culion leper colony in the Philippines was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards...
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the first state Duma. May 27 The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. Gustav...
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FORTRESS". iHeartAgutaya. Retrieved 2018-12-03. "NHCP unveils the Culion Leper Colony historical marker | NATIONAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF THE PHILIPPINES"...
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as Civil Governor (1905–1906) 1906 May 27 Establishment of Culion Leper Colony in Culion Island in Palawan. September 20 James Francis Smith appointed...
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The mint also produced a special coinage for the inmates at the Culion Leper Colony. The building housing the mint was destroyed during the retaking...
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000,000 in damages. May 27 – The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. June...
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leprosy but chose to stay in Cebu instead of moving to Palawan's Culion Leper Colony. In 1948, the community established the Student Christian Center...
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During the American occupation and up until recently, Culion Island was host to a leper colony. Busuanga Island hosts the largest town, Coron, in the...
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Creation of Asipulo RA 7173 Ratified September 12, 1992 Culion leper colony, Palawan Creation of Culion RA 7193 Ratified April 10, 1994 Mandaluyong Cityhood...
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Retrieved October 26, 2024. Formoso, Celeste Anna (September 9, 2024). "Culion Museum declared national treasure". Daily Tribune. Retrieved October 27...
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theme was “America’s Legacy in Palawan with a focus on Culion Leper Colony and Iwahig Penal Colony.” The PHA organized together with the National Historical...
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becoming the Secretary of the Interior. He recommended Culion as the Philippine Leper Colony. This act forced the transfer of the Sandoval clan in 1900...
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was the Chief Chemist for the Philippine Health Service at the leper colony on Culion Island, Philippines, which is the type locality. Williams, J.T.;...
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and remembers the brother he lost. In "The View From Culion", a young woman raised in a leper colony strikes up a tentative friendship with a US Navy officer...
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Government Printing Office. 1927. p. 76. Arcilla, Jose S. (2009). "The Culion Leper Colony, 1900s-1970s". Philippine Studies. 57 (2): 307–326. JSTOR 42634012...
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under Governor Wright, the island of Culion was made into a government reservation, providing a colony for lepers and a vast government farm, its jurisdiction...
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contracted Hansen's Disease. She was deported to Culion, where the US Navy had established a leper colony. Roberto's deportation caused mass community outrage...
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