Kikuchi I
National Leprosarium Kikuchi Keifuen, Kumamoto, Japan.
Nihon Rai Gakkai Zasshi. 1993 Nov;62(3):118-24. doi: 10.5025/hansen1977.62.118.
Hansenites in Kumamoto could be traced to 1871, when a number of patients were found lining the road to Honmyoji temple. Earlier records have not been found. After the establishment of two private hospitals, first by an English missionary and then by a French Catholic, a public hospital, Kyushu Leprosarium, was started in 1909. In spite of the segregation policy for the management of HD patients, they lived near the Honmyoji temple until the arrest of 157 patients on July 9, 1940. Why they lived there for a long period of time is discussed in this paper. Factors might include the absence of prejudice around the Honmyoji temple where patients and healthy people lived together, economically favorable situations of patients living there, and bitterness of life in the Kyushu Leprosarium. The abolishment of the settlements as well as that of Kaishun Hospital for HD patients, run by an English missionary, might be in preparation for the coming war, but details have not been known.
熊本的麻风病人可追溯到1871年，当时发现许多病人在通往本妙寺的道路两旁。尚未找到更早的记录。在一家由英国传教士开办的私立医院，以及后来一家由法国天主教徒开办的私立医院成立后，一家公立医院——九州麻风病疗养院于1909年开业。尽管对麻风病患者实行了隔离管理政策，但在1940年7月9日逮捕157名患者之前，他们一直生活在本妙寺附近。本文讨论了他们长期居住在那里的原因。因素可能包括本妙寺周围不存在偏见，患者与健康人共同生活，患者在那里生活的经济有利状况，以及九州麻风病疗养院的艰苦生活。取消这些定居点以及由英国传教士开办的顺昌麻风病患者医院，可能是为即将到来的战争做准备，但具体细节尚不清楚。
