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<p>[QUOTE="Steve66, post: 2088162, member: 73011"]<span style="color: #000000">1925 Culion Leper peso</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH]390394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]390395[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">INFO:</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">The Culion Leper Colony was a former leprosarium located on Culion, an island in the Palawan province of the Philippines. It was established by the US government in order to rid leprosy from the Philippine islands through the only method known at the time: isolating all existing cases and gradually phasing out the disease from the population. In addition to segregating the disease from the rest of the population, the island was later established in order to offer a better opportunity for people afflicted with leprosy to receive adequate care and modern treatments.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">They even had their own currency.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steve66, post: 2088162, member: 73011"][COLOR=#000000]1925 Culion Leper peso [ATTACH]390394[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]390395[/ATTACH] INFO: The Culion Leper Colony was a former leprosarium located on Culion, an island in the Palawan province of the Philippines. It was established by the US government in order to rid leprosy from the Philippine islands through the only method known at the time: isolating all existing cases and gradually phasing out the disease from the population. In addition to segregating the disease from the rest of the population, the island was later established in order to offer a better opportunity for people afflicted with leprosy to receive adequate care and modern treatments. They even had their own currency.:)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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