Transcript: Clarence "Boogie" Kahilihiwa
There were over 300 residents when he arrived, now there are fewer than 20
- [Lindberg:]
- So how many patients are still here with Hansen’s disease?
- [Boogie:]
- I think there’s—right in Kalaupapa?
- [Lindberg:]
- Yeah.
- [Boogie:]
- I don’t think anybody has—
- [Lindberg:]
- No one is active with the disease? But I mean—
- [Kahiliwa:]
- Oh, when I came, when I came, I think ‘59—let me see now— well over 200, 300.
- [Lindberg:]
- But now probably 20, 30 or so?
- [Boogie:]
- Yeah, about 20-something. But even when I came there were a lot of people that I didn’t know. You ask the other guy, “What’s happening?” “Oh, they went to the funeral. Oh, you didn’t notice that—passed on.”