These were not hospitals in the modern sense but primarily intended as lazarets or leper colonies that later became shelters for vagrants and beggars.
32.
The novel also features some texts written by Alain Damasio and Gilles Osvald, and digital paintings created by Johann Bodin and Anders Lazaret.
33.
After the death of one patient there were 74 patients at the new lazaret by 6 February 1940; 41 male and 33 female.
34.
It has been claimed that 40 former Peel Island patients died in the first five years of the Fantome Island Lazaret, from Tuberculosis.
35.
The Jews who resisted were taken to the " Lazaret ", also called the " Red Cross infirmary ", and shot behind it.
36.
By the late 19th century, it had become an important Russian Navy base and the Russians established an oceanographic laboratory in the old lazaret.
37.
Foundations were laid for a weatherboard and fibro cement Anglican Church at the lazaret in October 1940, and St Lukes opened in January 1941.
38.
There were other issues on Fantome Island in the late 1960s, at least according to Reverend Maurice Malone, who lived at the lazaret.
39.
More recent domestic rubbish and materials scattered about the site suggest the paved platform is the location of a post-lazaret occupation camp site.
40.
The remnants of both the lock hospital and the lazaret demonstrate the minimal financial commitment and concern of past governments towards non-European patients.
