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After 400 years of Spanish occupation, the revolt led by General Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippines on June 12, 1898, only to succumb to American occupation a short time later.
This rich and unique history makes a walk along its streets a time travel — a trip into the dark and hopeful past. Culion Island has always been isolated, a distant, hardly accessible paradise. But isolation found another meaning in 1904 when an Executive Order was issued to create a leper colony in Culion, shutting it from the rest of the world.
It was a former leprosarium, starting in 1906 under the American colonial regime until the American commonwealth of the Philippines era. Although leprosy on the island-town was abolished in the 1980s, it was only in 2006 when it was declared a leprosy-free area by the World Health Organization.
Jun 19, 2022 · From 1914 to 1921, Culion was believed to be the largest leprosy colony in the world. In 1933, the number of lepers on the island was 7,000. The colony had two areas: one where most of the patients lived, and Balala, where the healthy personnel resided.
Jan 25, 2016 · Culion was a former Spanish fort before the American rule. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Roger Pe. When many refused to go, they were a handful of courageous men and women who answered a call of duty in 1906.
The history of Culion as a leper colony can be traced back to May 27, 1906, when Coast Guard cutters Polillo and Mindanao docked along the shore of Culion and carried 370 Hansenites (lepers) from Cebu. Most of them were brought here against their will.
Article History. Culion Island, island, one of the Calamian Group, west-central Philippines. The island is the site of Culion Reservation, a therapeutic community founded in 1906 for the treatment of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). Rice and coconuts are grown on the island.
Jan 7, 2020 · Directed by Alvin Yapan, “Culion” is a moving new addition to the Philippines’ growing list of masterful historical narratives told through film. Starring Iza Calzado, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, and Meryll Soriano, this two-hour-and-25-minute film takes audiences back in time to the brink of World War II to the leprosarium of Culion ...
Nov 3, 2016 · Visiting this historical town of Culion is one of the highlights of my travels in the Philippines as I got to learn about leprosy, the rich history of the island, and the locals’ simple way of living.
Culion is the original site of the Leonard Wood Memorial before it was transferred to its present location in Cebu. There is a rich library of materials on leprosy compiled by Damien Dutton Recipient and first Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Leprosy, Dr Windsor Wade.
