Buluba HospitalW
Buluba Hospital

Buluba Hospital, whose formal name is St. Francis Hospital Buluba, is a community hospital in Uganda. It is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jinja.

Burton LazarsW
Burton Lazars

Burton Lazars is a village two miles (3 km) south-east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire having a population of c.450 in 2015. It is the site of the remains of the English headquarters of the military and hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus. The official population as taken at the 2011 census is included in the civil parish of Burton and Dalby

Leper Chapel, CambridgeW
Leper Chapel, Cambridge

The Leper Chapel in Cambridge, also known as the Leper Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, is a chapel on the east side of Cambridge, England, off Newmarket Road close to the railway crossing at Barnwell Junction. It dates from about 1125.

Fort Charles (Saint Kitts)W
Fort Charles (Saint Kitts)

Fort Charles, also called Cleverley Point Fort, is a historic British colonial fort site on the island of St. Kitts, located in the present day nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean.

Calton HillW
Calton Hill

Calton Hill is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.

Hansen House (Jerusalem)W
Hansen House (Jerusalem)

Hansen House is a cultural center in a historic leprosy asylum in Jerusalem. Jesus Hilfe

Homerton University HospitalW
Homerton University Hospital

Homerton University Hospital is a hospital in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney. It is managed by Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Hoshizuka Keiaien SanatoriumW
Hoshizuka Keiaien Sanatorium

Hoshizuka Keiaien Sanatorium, is a sanatorium for leprosy patients or ex-leprosy patients in Kanoya-shi, kagoshima-ken, Japan which was established in 1935.

Hospital of St Lawrence, ActonW
Hospital of St Lawrence, Acton

The Hospital of St Lawrence, variously known as St Lawrence's Hospital, the Hospice of St Lawrence and the free Chapel and Hospice of St Lawrence and St James, was a medieval house for lepers outside the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, England. It was located to the west of the town, on what is now Welsh Row, within the parish of Acton. St Lawrence's later became a hospital for the infirm poor. Dissolved in 1548, the hospital's land and property was purchased by the Wright family. One of its buildings was subsequently used for dwellings.

Hospital of the Holy InnocentsW
Hospital of the Holy Innocents

The Hospital of the Holy Innocents, or the Melandry was a Leper Hospital on South Park common in Lincoln, England. It was founded in the late 11th or early 12th century either by Bishop Remigius or Henry I. It was possibly the first Leper Hospital to be founded in England. In 1422 the confraternity of Burton Lazars was granted the Hospital of the Holy Innocents. At the time of Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Hospital, together with the Burton Lazars hospital were purchased by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Kagando HospitalW
Kagando Hospital

Kagando Hospital, also known as Kagando Mission Hospital, is a hospital in the Western Region of Uganda.

Koyama Fukusei HospitalW
Koyama Fukusei Hospital

Koyama Fukusei Hospital is the oldest leprosy hospital in Japan. It was established by the Roman Catholic priest Germain Léger Testevuide of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1889, for treating leprosy in Japan and is thereby the oldest lepers' home in Japan. As of 2009, at the time of its closure as a leprosy hospital, there were 8 ex-leprosy residents. This hospital is now open to the general public as a clinic and a hospice for the terminally ill.

Kusatsu Special PrisonW
Kusatsu Special Prison

Kusatsu Special Prison was a prison that operated between 1938 and 1947, in Kuryu Rakusen-en Sanatorium in Kusatsu Onsen, Kusatsu town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, where criminals in public leprosariums throughout Japan were imprisoned. Prisons for conventional crimes had been built earlier in all public leprosariums. 22 out of 93 prisoners died of cold or maltreatment in the cells or after confinement. In Japanese, it was called Tokubetsu Byoshitsu or Jyu Kanbo.

Leper colonyW
Leper colony

A leper colony, lazarette, leprosarium, or lazar house was historically a place to isolate people with leprosy. The term lazaretto, which is derived from the name of the biblical figure Saint Lazarus, can refer to isolation sites, which were at some time also "colonies", or places where lepers lived or were sent. Many of the first lazarettes were operated by Christian monastic houses. Leper hospitals exist throughout the world to treat those afflicted with leprosy, especially in Africa, Brazil, China and India.

Losheng SanatoriumW
Losheng Sanatorium

Losheng Sanatorium is a sanatorium for lepers in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei, Taiwan. Losheng means "happy life". The building was constructed in the 1930s during the Japanese colonial period.

Nyenga Mission HospitalW
Nyenga Mission Hospital

Nyenga Mission Hospital, whose formal name is St. Francis Hospital Nyenga, but is commonly referred to as Nyenga Hospital, is a non-profit, community hospital in Uganda. It is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugazi.

Ooshima Seishoen SanatoriumW
Ooshima Seishoen Sanatorium

Ooshima Seishōen Sanatorium, or National Sanatorium Ooshima Seishōen is a sanatorium for leprosy or ex-leprosy patients, situated in a small island called Ooshima, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan which was established in 1909.

St. Joseph's Hospital KitgumW
St. Joseph's Hospital Kitgum

St. Joseph's Hospital Kitgum (SJHK), is a hospital in the Northern Region of Uganda. It is a private, non-profit, community hospital, serving the town of Kitgum and surrounding areas of Kitgum District, Lamwo District and parts of the Republic of South Sudan. In addition, the hospital receives many patients from Kotido District, Abim District, Moroto District, Agago District and Pader District.

St Margaret's AlmshousesW
St Margaret's Almshouses

St Margaret's Almshouses are part of a 12th-century leper colony in Taunton, Somerset, England.