This week’s milestones: July 26 to Aug. 1

July 26, 2014 The National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a historical marker at Culion, Palawan, to commemorate the Culion Leper Colony.

After the United States’ capitulation of Manila in 1898, thousands of people were afflicted with leprosy.

At a time when no cure or effective treatment was known, isolation and segregation of the ...