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"Leper colonies" on the West Coast are established to detain Chinese people.

Date: 1876

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Like many illnesses and diseases of the time, leprosy is blamed on Chinese communities. An amendment to the general police law in California bans people with leprosy from interacting with the general population and orders them to be secluded. Those targeted by this law, at this time, are almost exclusively Chinese.