 The leprosarium was closed in the 1960s and the inmates were transferred to Sungai Buloh Leper Settlement/Leprosarium.Part of the island were made into a health quarantine centre for immigrants in 1875 at the eastern and northern parts of the island.A memorial is located at the island dedicated to two crew members of the Imperial Russian Navy who died when their cruiser was sunk by the cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine in the Battle of Penang on 28 October 1914.