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| 1891 | ManankavalyIn the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1891(ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1891), an article "A Leper Colony in Madagascar: Shall it be Ours?" reported that "The Rev P G Peake, of Isoavina, Madagascar, in an affecting appeal to the Directors, states that from the time of his arrival in Madagascar, in 1870, he had always been aware that there were lepers [sic] in the province of Imerina, but so little was seen of them that, in common with most foreigners, he scarcely realised their existence. However, on his return last season he became painfully conscious of the serious extent of this fell disease. One of his most promising students, left under native instruction during his absence, after taking a second-class certificate when only half through his course, showed marked indications of the disease, and was at once asked to retire from the companionship of his fellows. He had in disappointment, shame, and self-horror spent his days and nights, for fifteen months, in tears over his sad fate. He had learned the trade of tin-smith previous to his becoming a student, so he has been furnished with tools and materials, and is now working in his seclusion, but he has great difficulty in disposing of his products. Another case was that of David, a college-trained man, who had once been an evangelist in the district. On the day after Mr Peake's arrival in Antananarivo, he received a letter from him urging him to use his influence to save him from being turned out of his little secluded home in the outskirts of the town to the east of our LMS College. He failed in his endeavours to prevent this, and David was turned out of his home without compensation, and is now in the hands of a native who professes to be able to cure him." (233) Peake wrote to the Foreign Secretary "I propose to begin in a very modest and moderate way by building twenty-four cottages, a small hospital, and small chapel. Five persons to each cottage would secure shelter for 120. These cottages, chapel, and hospital will not exceed 10 each, a maximum total of 260. I hope the Society and friends in England will send me that sum for so excellent a purpose" (235) [Leprosarium] [Madagascar] |
| 1892 | ManankavalyThe Rev Philip Peake took it upon himself to start a leper hospital at Isoavina in 1892, and assisted by friends in Britain and the Malagasy Government, which donated the land, he built thirteen cottages. He struggled with financial problems until the LMS directors finally agreed to give him the necessary funds for a leprosy hospital. (Ibonar A Gow, Madagascar and the Protestant Impact: The Work of the British Missions, 1818-95 (Longman & Dalhousie UP, 1979): 141) [Leprosarium] [Madagascar] |
| 1893 | Manankavaly"Destruction of the Leper Chapel Madagascar" "... as early as the middle of 1891, I had secured a large piece of land, nearly three quarters of a mile long by about the same in breadth, and commenced building thirteen cottages, trusting to the willingness of good people to help in good time. We were not, however, fortunate in getting the buildings sufficiently advanced before the rains set in, and they were left for the building season. But last April we prepared plans for twenty-five cottages, a hospital, a house for visitors, and a chapel; and we were well into the work again by the end of May, and before the rainy season had well set in all the buildings were roofed in with tiles, and we hoped to be able to open our doors to such as were looking forward and longing for admission after Christmas, when we expected to hold a dedication service in the chapel. These plans, however have been rudely set aside by the most destructive cyclone which has ever swept over this country within the memory of the oldest living natives. It took place on January 29th. Besides taking off part of the roof of the mission house, the entire roof of our girl’s schoolhouse, and destroying the class room of the boy’s school here, five chapels in the district were leveled to the ground; ... our beautiful new chapel, with its tiled roof, coloured walls, and glass windows, in the leper village, in which we hoped many hearts would be gladdened by the message of mercy and love, was laid waste by the rage of the terrible storm." P G Peake. Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1893(ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1893):149- [Leprosarium] [Madagascar] |
| 1896 | Manankavaly"The Faithfulness of the Christian Leper" Two or three miles away from Ambatovory is a large piece of ground granted by the good Queen to the Rev P G Peake, for the purpose of forming a village for those afflicted by that terrible disease, leprosy. Here a number of cottages had been erected, a neat little church built, and hundreds of trees planted for fruit and shade. A few weeks ago the rebels attacked this place, wrecked the church, cut down almost all the trees, and stole the year's store of rice which had been provided for the inmates. Since then a few of the poor people have ventured to return, and to these, three or four days ago, Mr Peake sent a supply of money through a trustworthy man, himself a leper [sic], but formerly, before he was attacked by the disease, an evangelist. His name is David, and he has acted as superintendent and teacher at the leprosy village. But, by some means or other, the rebels, or rather the ruffianism of the neighbourhood got to know of this money being sent out. They seized poor David, stole his money,stripped him of his clothing, and then demanded that he should swear to become one of them - in other words to renounce his Christianity and return to heathenism. But the good man refused utterly to do this; and then the wretches brutally murdered him, cutting off his head and afterwards burning his body.Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for the Year 1893(ed Rev George Cousins, London: London Missionary Society, 1893): 261 [Leprosarium] [Madagascar] |