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It happened in this country too. We still make reference to one woman, who in the early 1900s was isolated at a small facility. I forget her last name, but everyone knows her as "Typhoid Mary." I think she was of Irish ancestry and a cook at one of the weathier homes before her incarceration.
Of course, before Father Damien got there (to Molokai), conditions of those isolated for having Hansen's Disease were absolutely deplorable. However, it was felt that it was absolutely necessary to keep them apart from the general population because there were no treatments.
It's such a dicey question. What do you do with a large population of people with a communicable and deadly disease for which there is no treatment or cure??
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