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Between 1928 and 1940, during the economic depression and under the Japanese Imperial Government, many people in Chosen were homeless and between 3,000 and 4,000 died, every year.
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Leprosy affected people were particularly vulnerable. For example, in 1939, 78 leprosy affected people died of exposure.
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Sorok do Sanatorium opened 1933 and admitted 6000 people from all over Chosen
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The expansion of Sorok Do should have prevented the loss of life of vagrant leprosy-affected people, but the deaths continued.
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Forty-four died in 1938, twenty-one in 1940, and 20 in 1944.
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A newspaper clipping from 1936, June 15, showing vagrant Hansen Disease patients. The headline says "If they are spotted on the street they should be sent to Sorok do".
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The newspaper article writes of grotesque and horrifying leprosy patients who believe the myth that their disease could be cured if they ate the liver of a small child,,,, so they roam around looking for children to abduct,,,,,
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Soonchun 1931
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Soonchun 1931
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