When leprosy was still an incurable disease, it was pretty much a death sentence for anyone who had it. Those afflicted were shunned by society and lived in fear, shame and isolation.
In then British Malaya, the colonial government enforced compulsory isolation of leprosy patients, under the Leprosy Enactment Act, as a measure to prevent the spread of leprosy. But there was a glimmer of hope for the sick, even before the first treatment for leprosy was introduced in the 1940s.
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