A "leper colony" refers to a place where people with a highly contagious and disfiguring disease called leprosy were sent to live separately from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease. Full definition
Once the largest leper colony in the world during the early 1900's, it stands today as a stark reminder of life in the Philippines when leprosy was still an incurable disease, and a testament to how leprosy was eradicated not just in the Philippines but in the entire world. (twoseasonsresorts.com)
Almost all his ministry was centered on the spiritual and material care of the residents of leper colonies. (religion-online.org)
But despite the love from Osh and their neighbor Miss Maggie, Crow is consumed with finding her origins, and so she embarks on a search that leads her to a former leper colony on a nearby island — and here's where things get really exciting. (bookpage.com)