No Man on the Island
I had the opportunity to visit this secluded and somewhat uninhabited island on one of our teachers’ trips. It used to be a quarantine place in the 1700′s when epidemics had reached the country. I can’t tell much about the history of the island but what I saw was enough to convince me that it housed disease-stricken people in the past. It’s not allowed to take pictures of what’s on the island so I wish you could just imagine how the facilities look like through the image below.
I hope I didn’t scare you with the history of Känsö. Everything in here is just preserved but the epidemics have long been gone. I believe you know why some nations before had quarantine places for sick people. But times have changed and real hospitals have been organized and built.
~ Skywatch Friday ~
Category: Photologue, Work Notes
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Marlene is a teacher by profession holding a degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. She works as a Mother Language Teacher in Sweden. She is a Filipina married to a Swede. She has been blogging since 2007 and she and her hubby own quite a number of websites. Connect with Marlene on Google+
Ah Marlene it’s so sad you can’t take the picture. Can we see the place using google earth?
Yes. N 57° 37.784 E 11° 45.277
The Islands like that were a necessity back in the old days. The only way to stop the spread. It is so great to have modern medicine and great hospitals.
Thank you, Russ, for your comment.
Yes, I remember we had an island in the Philippines where people afflicted with leprosy were quarantined there. But now, isolation can also be done in the hospitals.
I feel sad when I see this photo and I can’t imagine the people who lived there before fighting for that contagious deadly disease.
Each day is a knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
Sad that they apparently still feel the need to hide what took place in the past. Even from that distance the buildings look forbidding.
I wish you could have been able to take pictures. This is history, I am glad they preserved it but wonder why you can’t take pictures.
I was also wondering why, too. It’s kind of weird though.