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Cleansing Western Samoa: Leprosy Control during New Zealand Administration, 1914–1922

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dc.contributor.author Akeli, Safua
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-01T22:27:55Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-01T22:27:55Z
dc.date.issued 2017-11
dc.identifier.citation Safua Akeli (2017) Cleansing Western Samoa: Leprosy Control during New Zealand Administration, 1914–1922, The Journal of Pacific History, 52:3, 360-373, DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1380507 en_US
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1000
dc.description Vol. 52, No. 3, ; p. 360–373 en_US
dc.description.abstract When New Zealand military forces occupied Sa ¯moa in 1914, there were 12 recorded leprosy sufferers isolated in a leprosy station established by the Imperial German government in the village of Falefa. By 1918, the leprosy sufferers had been relocated to the island of Nu‘utele, off the east coast of Upolu. Four years later in 1922, the patients were transferred to the Fiji leprosy colony on the island of Makogai. Drawing largely on archival, song and oral records, this paper focuses on the years from 1918 to 1922 and examines the network of authorities involved in the care of leprosy sufferers and the policies of the New Zealand administration to keep Sa ¯moa ‘clean’ of the disease. This care and these policies led to the ‘Makogai solution’, which, as fragments of songs and oral histories indicate, was for decades to haunt those left behind in Samoa. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Journal of Pacific History en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Journal of Pacific History;Volume 52, 2017 - Issue 3
dc.subject Samoa en_US
dc.subject leprosy en_US
dc.subject Hansen’s disease en_US
dc.subject New Zealand en_US
dc.subject Falefa en_US
dc.subject Nu‘utele en_US
dc.subject Makogai en_US
dc.subject isolation en_US
dc.title Cleansing Western Samoa: Leprosy Control during New Zealand Administration, 1914–1922 en_US
dc.title.alternative Narratives and Documents en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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