Segregated Visitation Hall with Long Central Table at Kalaupapa Hansen's Disease Settlement Where Patients and Visitors Were Prohibited from Physical Contact Through Enforced Distancing

Sunlight streams into the mint-green visitation hall where a long narrow table once created a strict boundary between Hansen's disease patients and their visiting family members, allowing conversation but forbidding physical touch. This preserved corridor at Kalaupapa settlement, with its row of windows and central dividing furniture, stands as a powerful physical reminder of the enforced separation policies that residents endured for decades—where even the closest family members could see one another but never embrace, a heartbreaking embodiment of medical segregation policies that shaped thousands of lives.