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| 1860 | Pulau Serimbun"1860 August, the Senior Surgeon on his regular tour of inspection visited Pulau Serimbun (off Malacca) which had already come into use as an asylum for persons afflicted with leprosy. He was so taken up with conditions there that he wrote in his report: 'I consider Pulo Simbang [Pulau Serimbun] peculiarly well adapted for the establishment of a lazaretto, and would respectfully leave it to the consideration of his Honour, the Governor, whether means could not be devised for ending all the lepers from this Station [ie Singapore] and Penang also to Pulo Simbang'. He thought the island large enough to accommodate all cases from the Straits, and would appeal to people who were shunned even by their friends. This proposal however, did not find favour with the Governor ..." Straits Settlements Records 16.8.1860 cited in A. Joshua-Raghavar, Leprosy in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future, ed. Dr K Rajagopalan (A Joshua-Raghavar: Sungai Buluh, Selangor, West Malaysia, 1983): 27-8. [Leprosarium] [Straits Settlements] |