Patients Held Against Their WillPatients Were Held Against Their Will

A note which read, “Help I am being held here against my will,” was found in one of the rooms in the Tuberculosis Pavilion. We are assuming that it was a message written by a drug addict patient. But it was not only the drug addicts but also the patients of smallpox and tuberculosis who did not want to be on the island, most of them were taken there forcefully.