The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony - Benjamin Kingsbury Format_Paperback Perfect for the armies of

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The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony - Benjamin Kingsbury Format_Paperback Perfect for the armies ofFrom 1906 to 1925 Quail Island 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. It was a place that some people wanted to forget, but its stories are