Talk:Leper colony
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Who is Alistair Clifton? I think this needs some expansion to highlight this individual, moreso as he doesn't have his own Wiki entry.
-I agree. While I am reluctant to change the page at the moment, that segment is little more that a semirelevant factoid.
Whats with the Lazerus the Begger extension. who says he has leperosy, and if he does how is this helpfull, (read the 2 sentence link and you get what I mean).Mushrooms77720:59, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think it should be added in this article thatCulion Island inPalawan,Philippines was once the world's largest leper colony founded by American colonists in 1906 and closed in 1992. ThePhilippines should be added among the countries with leper colonies. These are ,after all, important historical facts.User:The Patrician
A section about leper colonies in fiction would be a good addition.77.31.157.43 (talk)17:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
this article seems to think these don't exist anymore, which is unfortunately not the case.71.253.25.182 (talk)14:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Where are these modern colonies located? And how would one go about scheduling a visit to said colony(-ies)?2001:56A:F733:2C00:A988:B5E8:6951:B41C (talk)03:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The article onsocial distancing has (predictably) gotten tons of attention since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. There's been some addition of history, but way more of contemporary talk about effectiveness etc., and as a result much of the history on things like leper colonies that was originally prominent in the (then-short) article is now buried. So, if you're inclined, please feel free to head over there and beef up some of the history content. Cheers,Sdkb (talk)03:09, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
See the entry onquarantine: "A quarantine ... preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, but do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population."
So quarantine is temporary, time-limited (40 days etymologically), for people who *might* have a disease. Isolation is for people who *do* have a contagious disease, up until they are cured (or indeterminately, if the disease is not curable). Lazar houses were clearly for isolation, not quarantine.
