Word: leprosarium
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Lowest Point. Aoki's colony was making quiet progress when the islanders were suddenly aroused by a Japanese plan to build a leprosarium on Okinawa. They burned the lumber for the buildings, finally forced Tokyo to postpone the plan. Then an enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start...
...shore. Two wealthy Japanese Christians donated money to build a central hall and two dormitories. A new colony, called Airaku-en (Garden of the Haven of Love) was started, and Aoki became its manager. The following year the Japanese government decided to use Aoki's site for its leprosarium, built a hospital and several other buildings. The colony's population jumped from 42 to 242, and some blamed Aoki for the government's brutally efficient gathering process. "I could stand the stonings and beatings and having my house burned down, because I had faith in my work...
...Sisters of Charity: founded by St. Vincent de Paul in France in 1633, they specialize in schools and hospitals, run a leprosarium in Louisiana, and number 8,000 in the U.S., 60,000 throughout the world...
...their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to ward off attack by infectious agents will vary greatly from day to day. If so, it may explain why a nurse or attendant in a leprosarium may be exposed to infection for years and then, mysteriously, fall victim to the disease. As Dubos puts it: "Contact and receptivity may be rarely coincidental...
This year Albert Schweitzer was too busy with a new leprosarium to visit the U.S. to report on the work in Africa to the thousands of Americans who have been providing the mission with money, drugs and materials. So he sent Emma Haussknecht...