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Patients who were not residing at the hospital were living in villages organized by ethnicity, each community being allowed to keep their traditions and religious practices. As part of occupational therapy, patients were expected to grow food, fish, do craft work or graze cattle. The leprosarium was
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on the island resulting in white people receiving more rations than non-white. The Fijian government was charging accommodation fees to the various governments sending lepers depending on the race of the patient. Fees were higher for whites, lower for Chinese, Indians and Maori and a lot lower for
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The beach forest, cycad dominated, and coastal/marine ecosystem of the island and its surrounding reef contribute to its national significance as outlined in Fiji's Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.
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renowned internationally as a model of discipline and social peace even though the Fijian government imposed a
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in 2016, so a new research centre was opened in 2019. In early 2019, the Ministry of Fisheries announced a
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was the superior of the lepers colony from 1916 until 1950. Patients were coming from all the
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of 267 metres (876 ft) on two peaks in the centre. Makogai is visible from
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Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific Islands
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and Makogai in early May 1789, becoming the first European to discover them.
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Research Centre and residential buildings had been destroyed by
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Preliminary Register of Sites of National Significance in Fiji
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Pacific islanders. The leper colony operated until the 1960s.
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owned by the colonial government of Fiji with the help of the
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