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Earlier, from 1860-83:

In the 1850s, Chinese miners who flocked to the goldfields brought with them the bacterial disease, leprosy, which then quickly transferred to the Aborigines and South Sea Islanders who had little natural immunity to the disease. Today, the disease is known as Hansen’s Disease (after Armauer Hansen, a Norwegian who discovered the bacteria that cause it). Back then, the disease was believed to be highly contagious with no known cure; by the 1890s sufficient Europeans had also contracted the disease to force the government to pass the Leprosy Act of 1892. This made leprosy a notifiable disease and forced those who contracted the disease to be sent to designated lazarets, or leper colonies, for treatment isolated from the general community. And, because there was no known cure, such internment was probably going to be a lifetime sentence. By 1907, the inmates of Queensland’s several lazarets were all sent to a new one at Peel Island. Leprosy sufferers were often isolated from their families, with little, if any opportunity to say goodbye. When they arrived at the island they found themselves part of a multicultural community consisting of South Sea Islanders, Aborigines, Chinese, Europeans, and Queensland-born whites. There they were housed in four compounds: white males, white females, coloured males, and coloured females. During the day, patients were free to roam the island but had to return to their compounds at night. The coloureds shared galvanised iron huts, however, the whites fared slightly better, having a wooden cabin each. White women also had a wood stove and kitchen in their huts and were encouraged to cook for themselves. The men, though, dined in the communal dining hut. They weren’t formally ‘prisoners’, however, leprosy patients were not allowed to leave the island apart from being permitted to fish on the island’s reefs, and indeed fishing was one of their main forms of recreation. Other activities included cricket or tennis, billiards, reading, listening to the radio, gardening, and attending concerts and church services. Source: www.secretbrisbane.com.au/home/2017/3/20/the-lazaret-at-p...

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