PEEL ISLAND - PARADISE OR PRISON?
CONTINUE THE STORY WITH THE FOLLOWING DOWNLOADS:
a new pdf file will be added each update (1st and 15th of month)
download them onto your computer and print your own A4 book.
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Previous updates (click on file name to
download):
Title Page
A
Foreword on Leprosy (Eric Reye describes the 1940s view of
leprosy)
Parliamentary Acts and Regulations with regard to Leprosy
Anti Leprotics
Vessels that serviced Peel Island
Ships
Quarantined at Peel island
Harold Walker
Doctor Darling
'Alex' ,a former Lazaret patient, remembers
Putting the
Power into Peel
Sound Archives:
Doctor Eric Reye talking about how leprosy came into Queensland (posted
15.7.2006)
Nurse Rosemary
Opala (Fielding) talking about Peel's Leprosy patients (posted 1.8.2006)
Former patient, Frank, talking about how
he felt when he first contracted Leprosy (posted 15.8.2006)
Former patient, June, talking about her
reaction to being told she had contracted Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) (posted
1.9.2006)
Former patient, initials M.P.
(referred to as "Matt" in book "Peel Island - Paradise or Prison?") talking about how
he and other patients were allowed to leave Peel Island for short fishing trips.
(e mail Peter Ludlow for a copy of any of the above sound files)
